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International Journal of Economic and Business Management Vol. 4(1), pp. 11-21, January, 2016. ISSN: 2384-6151 DOI: 10.14662/IJEBM2015.026
Full Length Research
Issues and Concerns Relating to Food Security in India
1Dr. Deva Raj Badugu and 2Vivek Kumar Tripathi
1Associate Professor, Joseph School of Business Studies, SHIATS, ALLAHABAD - 211007 E-mail: bajjie@gmail.com, deva.badugu@shiats.edu.in 2PhD. Research Scholar, Joseph School of Business Studies, SHIATS, ALLAHABAD -211007. E-mail: dhpsrtv@gmail.com, Vivek000t@gmail.com
Accepted 31 January 2016
The cost of
food items is increasing rapidly, making them unaffordable to a large
majority of Indians. India’s food security is worsening by the year.
India is home to the highest number of undernourished people amongst all
nations. Pulses and sugar play a critical role in the diet of the people
of India, where large sections are vegetarians. However, increase in
demand coupled with supply constraints have seen the prices of these
very commodities rising alarmingly, giving rise to concerns of food
security. Food security may be achieved by stimulating the Indian
economy through broad-based agricultural growth, which increases incomes
along with food production, reduces poverty, and brings down food prices
in local markets for the urban poor. Food security is a foundation for
building social and economic development. Increasing food security is
both a humanitarian and development priority. In the Indian context,
food security and enhanced agricultural productivity are the life lines
of growth of agriculture of India; agriculture is a very important
sector for the sustained growth of the Indian economy. Indian farmers
are plagued by poor economic status, fragmented landholdings, lack of
post harvest infrastructure and lack of farm extension. At the same
time, India is witnessing rising demands for food-grains day by day. As
an outcome, food availability is gradually facing a crunch. The
government needs to take immediate steps to avoid spiralling food
prices, the first of which will have to be the empowerment of
agriculturists. The increase in agricultural income that results would
improve the living standards of the over 888888888881999499959999999999
million rural households, in over 9999999900,000 villages of the
country. Cite This Article As: Badugu DR, Tripathi VK (2016). Issues and Concerns Relating to Food Security in India. Inter. J. Econ. Bus. Manage. 4(1): 11-21.
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