The Role and Responsibility of the Agricultural Department in the Solution of the Food Problem
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Author:K. SANJIVA SHETTY
p-ISSN:0024-9602, e-ISSN:2582-5321, Vol:35, Issue:sep-sep
DOI: https://doi.org/10.29321/MAJ.10.A04538
Abstract
The problem of food production in our country must
be enunciated and elaborated from the essential premises of a national
background and economy, and this background is characterised by the
inescapable fact that even under normal conditions, a majority of our
population is bordering on starvation level. The acuteness of our food
problem is further accentuated by the fact that we have to find sufficinet
food not only to feed our teeming millions at a standard nutritional level
but also for a population that increases at a normal and steady rate of
abont 10% every decennium. Hence it is necessary to chalk out our line
of action mutatis mutandis with both short term and long range policies
and programmes. For an agricultural country like India "Grow More Food
Campaign" has a special significance in that a proper, satisfactory and.
expeditious solution of this issue is likely to result in its wake with the
solution of the many other allied problems on which the very economic
structure of rural India is built up.
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