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Big New Grain Stores Near Farms! 🌾🏠

India is making small grain houses close to farms 🌾

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Key Points

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Over 1,000 farmer groups are building more than 1.8 million tonnes of storage.

Each small store can hold 50 to 200 tonnes of grain.

The interest rate for loans to build stores can be as low as 1%.

A village in Maharashtra stored 32,000 bags of soybeans and earned money.

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These houses keep wheat and rice safe from spoilage 🏠

Farmers can store their crops and sell them later for better money 💰

A group called a cooperative helps farmers build and run the stores 🤝

The government gives extra money to make the stores cheap and strong 💡

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8 words

cooperative

A group of farmers who work together and help each other.

decentralised

Spread out in many places instead of being in one big centre.

procurement

Buying or collecting something, like grain, for later use.

subsidy

Money the government gives to lower the cost of building something.

interest subvention

Extra help that makes loan interest cheaper.

logistics

The planning of moving things from one place to another.

viability

How well something can work and keep going.

audit

A check to make sure everything is done correctly.

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