The Role and Responsibility of the Agricultural Department in the Solution of the Food Problem

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.

DOI

https://doi.org/10.29321/MAJ.10.A04538

Pages

227 - 232

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© The Author(s), 2025. Published by Madras Agricultural Students' Union in Madras Agricultural Journal (MAJ). This is an Open Access article, distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited by the user.

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