前农业部长沙拉得·帕瓦（Sharad Pawar）曾指出，价值83亿美元或相当于总年产量近40%的粮食是浪费掉的。
Sharad Pawar, a former agriculture minister, has noted that food worth $8.3 billion, or nearly 40% of the total value of annual production, is wasted.