Prevent wastage of grains

China should take immediate measures to modernize its food storage, transportation and processing systems, and improve the management of related industries to prevent the wastage of food, says an article in Beijing Youth Daily. Excerpts:

According to Bloomberg Businessweek, China's grain import in the first 10 months of the year was 72.5 million tons, equivalent to that of the whole of last year. And Chinese people waste about half of that imported grain every year

Food grains are wasted at almost every link in the production, transportation, storage, processing and consumption chain. The government estimates about 35 million tons of grains are wasted each year in storage, transportation and processing alone. Some analysts say the food wasted by Chinese people on dinner tables each year is worth about 200 billion yuan ($33 billion) and enough to feed more than 200 million people a year.