Reducing Food Crisis..

These days, especially developing countries are facing food shortage. I am sure that economic experts, government and other stakeholders are doing their homework, for solving out this current problem. From my point of view every citizen should also now take initiation to get rid of famine. What I believe is that efforts of every individual can help to minimize the current shortage. Based on my everyday observation here I am going to mention some points that how our culture is responsible to promote scarcity.

Every Thursday and Saturday I go to temples for peace and tranquility of mind. What I observe is that especially Hindu throw grains at the temple, I know that is a part of our culture and we have been practicing this from the centuries. Similarly, we use maximum grains to worship the statue of Deity which is not either edible or useful in any sense. One thing that we always forget now is that during our forefathers’ periods there were enough food supply and less population. But now the situation is entirely different as the world’s population is increasing day by day. And we in the name of culture we are exploiting everything enhancing the food scarcity without realizing the reality even for a moment. Is it necessary to worship Gods with grain, can’t we think of other alternatives?

Similarly, we have a habit of wasting foods. In my office all the staffs take lunch together. I am always disappointed by their attitude of throwing foods. They are educated and are working in the social sector however one can easily find them wasting foods almost everyday. They take food more than and ultimately come up with leftovers. Is it necessary to take food more than we eat, can’t we control ourselves?

Likewise what I believe that we even need to change our regular food habit. We, Nepalese people eat maximum rice because there used to be enough production within the country then. However, now these days Nepal has to import rice and in this situation we should think about other alternatives which are nutritious and abundant in the country. Or may be we can also start skipping dinner as done by People of Thailand to minimize food crisis…yes at least we who lives in city, or who are suffering from obesity can do this. I believe such kinds of behavior will no doubt contribute towards solving the issue.

PS: Posted in http://niraj.instablogs.com on July 16, 2008