Sustainable Agricultural Supply Chains for Leveraging Sdgs

Abstract

Economic development of a nation is primarily rests on the advancement as well as the expansion of infrastructure, technology, manufacturing and services sectors. Developed nations have been , somehow reluctant on farming activities. Economic super powers always push the responsibility of agricultural practices in the courts of developing and third world countries like India, Indonesia, Bangladesh etc. But, the Sustainable Development www.icmai.in Goals (S DGs) essentially prioritize on ' Hunger (Goal-2)', 'Sustainable Consumption & Production (Goal12)' and 'Poverty (Goal- I)' which are functions of farming excellence and effective supply chains. Various studies indicate that wastage of food and food grains has been going up to the tune of around 60-70 per cent of global production. A major chunk is contributed by inefficient and weak supply chain that includes massive deficiency in preservation and ineffective distribution of agriculture produces. The situation is fatal in India and Asia-pacific region. The duality of economy is visible where farmers commit suicide as a result of large volume of productions and on the contrary, market surpri ingly suffers from food inflation. The grey area of market controlled agroeconomy is being squeezed by the black marketers and unfair trade practitioner . ln this backdrop, it is emergent to understand the gravity of the i sue and to devise sustainable supply chain solutions so as to curb the ill-managed and manmade economic catastrophe that is threatening the very existence of the mankind.