One of the big tragedies of modern economies, both capitalist and otherwise, is that all goods in the world become fungible commodities (eventually). From the love of farming and the passion of art, to the attention to detail in a user interface, everything is reduced to a ₹ figure. A lot of things end up being very cheap, price tag wise. You can "afford" to throw them away.

You can purchase a painting or pottery item, and when you don't like it any more, you can just throw someone's creativity in the trash heap. Similarly, you can take rice cooked with tremendous effort and just throw it away because you served yourself too much.

What is the solution to this? The price for human effort is very low. Even when the market "adequately compensates" farmers for their effort, that effort adds a pittance to the overall fork price of food.

I don't suppose the right approach is to add another cost or levy, such as the opportunity cost of someone else not eating that foodgrain, into the price of food. That's the kind of fancy behaviour change stuff that only looks good in economics journals. I'd much rather go for the basic sensitisation and education of consumers.