India’s pretty well known for curry, and it’s equally well known for its ‘Roti’ and other bread specialties in many parts of the world.
But within recent times, in little bakeries such as this one, India’s been facing a lot of problems of its own in terms of maintaining a quality supply chain and preserving the grains needed to produce staplegoods like bread.
There’s been a wide variety of reasons, a significant one being the seasonal monsoon weather which wrecks havoc over suppliers, not only damaging crops, but the physical infrastructure needed to maintain the supply chain such as machines and buildings.
It’s also due to lack of proper infrastructure to facilitate the grain industry properly, just looking at the video one would notice the thin polyester bags being loosely sealed with a threading machine and sweating backs of workings running to and from along thin wooden planks in attempts to carry the bags to the transport trucks. About 5-7% of costs could be saved if tattered punctured carrying bags like these were scraped and replaced with better quality ones.
Whilst there has been some improvements such as the gigantic grain storage tanks provided by government, there’s still a long way to go before there’s enough of such infrastructure to provide for the 1 billion people in the country.
