Awaaz Doo.

Agriculture Mafia: don’t just talk of food security!

What happens to your stomach… did do an ultrasound? Exactly found a kidney stone or falling ill because of excessive gastric? Yes these can be the symptoms if you fall prey of agriculture mafia and there killing marketing techniques. There are storages and processing units, true, but if you examine these products you will find them expired long ago. Now if you blame the shopkeeper, he will show you the producer, they will blame the shopkeeper for his inability of selling product. It’s just a blame game, but the sufferers are common men. Packets of potato chips, kurkure alikes whatever their claim is they all come to the fast food category. Whatever the food value it contains, it can not be balanced supplement of a person’s daily diet! Rather it may ruin the health of youths in forms of stomach ache or colitis.  

Of late the coloured vegetables are flooding the market, which are said to be the most ‘Tazza’ by the seller’s cunning selling tricks; the consequences are food poisoning and contamination. Turmeric powder contains yellow colouring agent, spinach contains green agent, brinjal colured with purple agent,  

In USA, there is strict law enforcement against food intoxication and malpractices. The Indian government is a chameleon. It talks a lot of food security but in reality it failed to curb these malpractices. There is a consumer forum, but it has eighteen months a year. No simplicity. Lot of technicalities, badly representing the people; statistics are just a blind man’s alley. Besides adults, infants and children are becoming worst affected; Ground operation is the order of the day. Like income tax raid, force should operate in the Mandi and bazaar and impose a heavy penalty.