Abstract

                                An account in given below of the efforts England made to achieve self-sufficiency of food even under shower of bombs in the World War II, to consider why attempts made in this country on the food front have not yielded similar results even though India has not been a war theatre. "Produce or Perish" was the challenge thrown to the nation and the whole country, realising the gravity of the situation, produced food even in excess of its requirements and won the war.

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