Whenever I get a chance to cross a market, as a food technologist I feel guilt, in our India Food wastage is 5.

8-18 per cent in fruits, 6.8 to 12.4 per cent in vegetables and 4.3 to 6.1 per cent in cereals. My worry blooms from the pathetic record in addressing the growing concerns of food insecurity and malnutrition that prevails, and that too at a time when the grain silos are overflowing. Food and Agricultural Organisation, the International Fund for Agricultural Development and the World Food programme - came out with its annual State for Food Insecurity report. Accordingly, with 217 million malnourished people, India tops the malnourishment chart. As far as child nutrition is concerned, India is placed at the bottom of the global chart. Experts agree that for a large section of the population, buying two square meals a day is now becoming more difficult. Several studies have pointed to the growing inability of a majority of households to the per capita calories consumption of 2,100 in urban and 2,400 in rural areas. It means most people are unable to meet the minimum nutritional requirements. In other words, hunger is becoming more acute and visible. More and more people are going to bed hungry. According to strategy studies india s share in world trade in food and agricultural products may touch $20 billion from current $ 7.5 billion. I therefore dont understand the logic of exporting food at a time when millions are living in hunger. The mounting food surplus is essentially because the poor and needy are unable to buy food grains even at below the poverty line prices. Food management essentially means distributing the available food grains among the poor and hungry. A beginning must be made by immediately stopping the export of staple foods, and simultaneously launch all-out effort to reach food grains at the doors of the hungry millions. There the problem stands in reaching where the ways full of hurdles like corruption, inflation, election bla bla., The technology for processing and preservation of food had developed but without reaching to a proper group of people.