The Present Food Position
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Author:Sri R. M. SUNDARAM
p-ISSN:0024-9602, e-ISSN:2582-5321, Vol:39, Issue:feb-feb
DOI: https://doi.org/10.29321/MAJ.10.A04330
Abstract
The Madras State has always been deficit in food production.. In
prewar years this deficit amounted to 5 lakhs of tons. It was made good
by imports from other countries, particularly from Burma. The war and
its aftermath created conditions making it difficult for the usual imports
to flow into the country. Further, the population has been growing all
these years at a rapid rate and Nature too has been very unkind during
the past five years in succession. All these factors have accentuated the
very difficult food position in this State. Thus controls in regard to food,
viz., procurement and rationing which were originally adopted as war time
measures have unfortunately come to stay with us for a longer period than
was originally expected. We began these controls in a few districts in
1942-43 and later on extended them, as our situation grew worse, with
the result that by 1946-47, the entire State was completely under control
in the matter of procurement and rationing.
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