Bungled Distribution

A year ago, if you traveled on NH-4 from Bangalore toward Kolar, you could find tonnes of plump, red tomatoes thrown away by the roadside. The farmers could not recover their investment on the crops, so they discarded the produce and anybody could stop by and take as much as they wished.

At the same time in Bangalore, tomato was priced at Rs.20 per Kg ! Ride about 30km from the city and you had loads of tomatoes that you could just grab for no price at all! This is the pathetic state of the distribution system in Karnataka since years. No wonder so many farmers have committed suicide over losses they incurred.



Here's what a district in-charge officer could do :
- collect various crops produced in the district;
- fix a price that ensures profit to the farmers and pay them right away;
- collect data about requirements in various parts of the state/country and study it;
- send the goods to optimal places to ensure maximum profit or least losses;
- we sometimes have empty buses/trains plying between towns. How about using them for transporting the crops if dedicated transport is an issue? I know that this is on a small scale. But it can cut down some cost, isn't it?


I think we should make the officials in charge study Operations Research and the passing mark should be at least 75%!


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