Golden Principles for Preservation of Food Grains without Deteriotation/Loss

♤ Food grain bags should be received with proper dunnages as per stack plan to facilitate cross ventilation/inspection/QC treatments and ensuring stacks are formed to full capacity and avoid part stacks.

♤ Maintaining excellent hygienic conditions all around the stacks/ godowns /operational points and avoiding loose spillages by ensuring cleaned spillages are put into palla bags to respective stacks.

♤ Effective personal supervision of prophylactic (spraying) treatments with correct dosage and immediate curative treatments (fumigation) on finding insects in a stack to avoid cross infestation on the lines of “A stitch in times saves nine”.

♤ Ensuring provision of adequate Tarpaulins/polythene bits to the minimum size of 10’ x 10’ at the operational points of receipts/ issues to avoid mixing of spillages with mud and possible losses.

♤ Ensuring spreading of tarpaulins/polythene bits/gunny wrappers on the decks of trucks before loading of food grains bags to avoid oozing enroute and proper full covering of loaded bags with tarpaulins to avoid pilferages, without complacency.

♤ Ensuring adequate aeration of stacks by opening all doors on all clear days.

♤ Completely avoiding dumping of spillages on the stacks.