Definition and Basic Elements of Food Security

Since 1990s, the food security has been a consistent theme raised in specific contexts in various conferences convened by the United Nations and other organizations. The joint FAO/WTO Conference on Nutrition, Rome, 1992, made two important declarations as follows: “Hunger ..

Distribution of Food-Grains in India

Distribution of essential commodities to larger section of the society, mostly vulnerable people, through a network of fair Price Shops on a recurring basis is done by the Public Distribution System (PDS). This system is jointly operated by the Central ..

Evaluation of the BGREI Programme

Bringing Green Revolution in Eastern India or BGREI scheme was launched in 2010-11 by the UPA government on the basis of recommendation of a Planning Commission task force. This task force focussed on the degrading soil / groundwater condition of ..

Why India needs Second Green Revolution?

India needs second green revolution to bring food security to its billion plus population, to remove distress of farming community and to make its agriculture globally competitive. To achieve these goals, yield rates of foodgrains, pulses, oil seeds, dairying and ..

Conceptual Framework of Second Green Revolution

The first green revolution ran out of steam mainly because it was focussed only on grain production; it did not help the dryland farming and it was not scale neutral and thus helped only large farmers. The call for second ..

National Commission on Farmers

In 2004, the UPA government had constituted a National Commission on Farmers under the chairmanship of Dr. MS Swaminathan. This commission included a wide variety of people into definition of farmer. Farmers included landless agricultural labourers, sharecroppers, tenants, small, marginal ..

Green Revolution Bypassed Eastern Region Despite Fertile soil and Good availability of water

Barring few pockets, the green revolution virtually bypassed the eastern region of the country despite the fact that it has fertile soil and plenty of water. There were several reasons for the same. Firstly, this region was bypassed due to ..

Failures of Green Revolution in India

Although green revolution led to increased production and economic betterment of the well to do farmers, but there is a dark aspect of this development. On several fronts, our institutional and political dispensation failed miserably, leading to current farmer distress. ..