With all the novel agricultural practises at our disposal and their usage has yielded enough yield to feed the entire population of the world.On one side we hear abour many latest developments in the agriculture albeit it not getting comparable attention as healthcare sector gets, yet due to many reasons around the world , crop yield of many vital, staple crops have gone down.
Be it increasing population of India and China, use of maize as fuel crop, climatic changes, shortage of water for irrigation etc, the prices of foodgrains have been on rise and their yields falling.
People below Poverty line of $1.25 have increased in recent years and the prospect of reaching a goal where everybody will have food seems grim as the population of the world is expected to touch 9 billion in 2050 from the current population of 7 billion people.
On the contrary the wastage of food in both rich and poor countries accounts for 30-50% of what is produced. The food gets either rotten or eaten by rats and mice or gets spoilt in transit.
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