Authors : KRUTIKA C. GANGDE, S R KALBANDE, V. P. KHAMBALKAR
Page Nos : 236-240
Description :
The adequate supply of food and nutrition to the ever growing population of India is the burning issue since independence. Government of India had mostly concentrate in food supply problem through the planning Commission of India. Since from the inception of the commission government has stared the public distribution system for the food and allied nutritional products. The food security issues are the very complex and it is mostly coupled with the development of agriculture sector. In earlier period of independence an acute shortages and heavy dependence on food aid to self-sufficiency, or broadly, self-reliance in food. With some bold thinking and organized state action, the country’s planners were able to usher in a Green Revolution in the late 1960s and early 1970s, enabling India to overcome productivity stagnation and to improve food grain production from 51 million tons in 1950–1951 to 108.4 million tons in 1970–1971 and 234.47 million tons in 2008–2009. This paper looks the way forward for the sustainable supply of food for the population
