Crops
'India's Rice Bowl' Is Emptying: Who Is to Blame?
Chhattisgarh, known as India's rice bowl, faces allegations of major irregularities as thousands of quintals of government-procured paddy are written off each year as natural losses.
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Corruption
Crops
Paddy Does Not Enter Government Godown Without a Bribe
Farmers in Astagram, Kishoreganj, say they must pay bribes to sell paddy to the government godown, and a video shows a food inspector demanding Tk 2,000 a tonne.
Crops
Meherpur Farmers Allege Demonstration Plot Funds Going to Agriculture Officer
Farmers in Meherpur Sadar accuse the upazila agriculture officer of siphoning off money allocated for their demonstration plots, handing over only a small share as inputs.
Livestock
Revenue Looted From Unleased Cattle Market's Khas Collection
Paranpur, the biggest cattle market in Gopalganj's Kashiani upazila, has gone unleased for two years, and a former leaseholder's syndicate is accused of keeping most of the toll money meant for the state.
Crops
Government Paddy Procurement Lists in Disarray in Rush to Meet Targets
The lists of farmers selling paddy to the government in Habiganj are riddled with wrong names and phone numbers, and the food and agriculture departments blame each other.
Crops
Irregularities and Graft Sink Shyampur Packing House, Exports Under Threat
Exporters allege bribery at every step of the government's only central packing house at Shyampur, while projects worth hundreds of crores have left it without a working lab.