Was crop diversification responsible for the recent food crisis in India

  • 31/07/2008

  • Agricultural Situation in India

Availability, accessibility and utilization of food are the three necessary conditions to achieve food security; yet food self sufficiency in India is often confused with the provisioning of food security. The country's self-sufficiency has also been dented with the massive imports of wheat in recent years. Price is important for accessibility but prices of food grains especially wheat has increased abruptly after 2005; this was followed by a global surge in prices and a crisis like situation emerged in wheat in the country.