Prices rocket , yet perishables rot

Sugar and pulses worth over $ 5o million are rotting inside the godown of Calcutta Port Trust for the past 10 weeks even as the prices of these products skyrocket in the market place because of the demand supply chain mismatch . Ten thousand tonnes of pulses imported from Myanmar , Canada , Russia and Ukraine and 2,000 tonnes of sugar imported from Myanmar , Brazil and Thailand are waiting to be picked up from sheds 2,13 and 14 of Netaji Subhas Dock and sheds 5,7 and 25 to 28 at Kidderpore Dock from the last week of June .