INTEGRATED FOOD POLICY RESEARCH PROGRAM | WORKING PAPER 002 | FEBRUARY 2019 Public food grain storage facilities in Bangladesh An assessment of functionality, repair needs, and alternative usage Authors: Razin Iqbal Kabir, Mohammad Yunus, Tofazzal Hossain and Shahidur Rashid TABLE OF CONTENTS Acronyms and Abbreviations ........................................................................................................ v Chapter 1. Introduction................................................................................................................... 6 1.1 Background....................................................................................................................... 6 1.2 Research Issues and Scope of Work ................................................................................ 7 1.3 Approach and Methodology .............................................................................................. 7 1.4 Survey Design and Implementation .................................................................................. 9 1.4.1 Survey Instrument .................................................................................................... 9 1.4.2 Selection of Enumerators, Training, and Pre-testing ................................................. 9 1.5 Field Operators and Data Collection ............................................................................... 10 Chapter 2. Characteristics of the Facilities ................................................................................. 11 2.1 Land Utilization of the Facilities ....................................................................................... 11 2.2 Total and Functional Facilities ......................................................................................... 12 2.3 Total and Functional Warehouses at Functional Facilities ............................................... 13 2.4 Age Structure of the Facilities ......................................................................................... 15 2.5 Rated and Usable Capacities of the Facilities ................................................................. 17 2.6 Supporting Infrastructures of the Facilities ...................................................................... 19 Chapter 3. Repair Needs ............................................................................................................... 22 3.1 Repair and Construction of Approach Roads .................................................................. 22 3.2 Repair and Construction of the Main Gate ...................................................................... 23 3.3 Repair and Construction of the Main Drain ..................................................................... 25 3.4 Repair and Construction of the Boundary Wall ................................................................ 26 3.5 Repair of Warehouse Walls ............................................................................................ 30 3.6 Repair of Warehouse Floors ........................................................................................... 32 3.7 Repair of Warehouse Ceilings ........................................................................................ 34 3.8 Repair of Warehouse Roofs ............................................................................................ 35 3.9 Repair of Warehouse Columns ....................................................................................... 36 3.10 Repair of Warehouse Beams .......................................................................................... 37 3.11 Repair of Warehouse Loading Docks .............................................................................. 38 3.12 Repair of Warehouse Canopies ...................................................................................... 39 3.13 Repair and Construction of Warehouse Drains ............................................................... 40 3.14 Repair and Construction of Warehouse Aprons .............................................................. 42 3.15 Repair and Construction of Warehouse Doors ................................................................ 43 i 3.16 Repair and Construction of Warehouse Ventilators ......................................................... 45 3.17 Additional Warehouse Repair Considerations ................................................................. 46 Chapter 4. Facilities and Warehouses by LevelS of RepairS Required .................................... 48 4.1 Warehouses by Repair Categories ................................................................................. 48 4.2 Storage Facilities by Repair Category ............................................................................. 49 Chapter 5. Infrastructure Conditions and Recommendations for Dismantling the Non- Functional Facilities ................................................................................................... 51 5.1 Current Conditions of Non-functional Facilities ................................................................ 51 5.2 Recommendations Regarding the Dismantling of Non-Functional Storage Facilities....... 54 Chapter 6. Key Findings and Their Implications ......................................................................... 58 6.1 Key Findings ................................................................................................................... 58 6.2 Implications ..................................................................................................................... 59 References .............................................................................................................................. 60 Appendix - A. Supplementary Tables ......................................................................................... 61 Appendix - B. Map of Public Storage Facilities in Bangladesh ................................................ 63 Appendix - C. Map of Non-Functional Storage Facilities in Bangladesh ................................. 64 ii LIST OF TABLES Table 1.1 Ideal features of a standard food grain storage facility ...................................................... 8 Table 2.1 Land area of the premises and utilization for warehouses ............................................... 11 Table 2.2 Number of total and functional storage facilities .............................................................. 13 Table 2.3 Total, functional and worn-out warehouses at functional storage facilities ....................... 14 Table 2.4 Number of functional storage facilities requiring warehouses to be dismantled ............... 14 Table 2.5 Age distribution of the facilities ........................................................................................ 15 Table 2.6 Age distribution of warehouses at functional storage facilities ......................................... 16 Table 2.7 Rated and functional capacity of the facilities .................................................................. 17 Table 2.8 Average functional capacity per warehouse at functional facilities by selected size ......... 18 Table 2.9 Availability of pre-cleaning, drying and weighing bridge facilities ..................................... 19 Table 2.10 Warehouses with functional weighing scales ................................................................. 20 Table 3.1 Repair and construction of approach roads ..................................................................... 22 Table 3.2 Repair and construction of the main gate ........................................................................ 24 Table 3.3 Repair and construction of the main drain ....................................................................... 25 Table 3.4 Masonry works of the boundary wall ............................................................................... 26 Table 3.5 Barbed wire fencing of the boundary wall ........................................................................ 28 Table 3.6 Repair of interior walls ..................................................................................................... 30 Table 3.7 Repair of exterior walls .................................................................................................... 32 Table 3.8 Repair of warehouse floors ............................................................................................. 33 Table 3.9 Repair of warehouse ceilings .......................................................................................... 34 Table 3.10 Repair of warehouse roofs ............................................................................................ 35 Table 3.11 Repair of warehouse columns ....................................................................................... 36 Table 3.12 Repair of warehouse beams.......................................................................................... 37 Table 3.13 Repair of warehouse loading docks............................................................................... 38 Table 3.14 Repair of warehouse canopies ...................................................................................... 39 Table 3.15 Repair and construction of warehouse drains ................................................................ 41 Table 3.16 Repair and construction of warehouse aprons .............................................................. 42 Table 3.17 Repair and construction of