Fwd: The Indian Tradition Of Growing And Sharing Food: Part 1

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The Indian Tradition Of Growing And Sharing Food: Part 1 | IndiaFactsDr. J K Bajaj27-11-2015

				The Indian Tradition Of Growing And Sharing Food: Part 1... India today [1996, when this article was first written] produces around 180 million tons of food grains for a population of around 900 million.
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India today [1996, when this article was first written] produces around 180 million tons of food grains for a population of around 900 million.

This article is based on a book by the authors entitled Annam Bahu Kurvita: Recollecting the Indian Discipline of Growing and Sharing of Food in Plenty, published by the Centre for Policy Studies, Madras.

Detailed references to the quotations in this article are available there. The statistical information on food availability in this article is based on the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) data for 1990.

India is hungry. For almost two hundred years, the average availability of food grains in India has remained below 200 kg per capita per year, which the British administrators considered to be the minimal requirement for staving off famines. The country, it seems, reached a state of near famine within a few decades of the coming of the British, and we have remained in that state ever since.

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(Co-authored by Dr. M.D. Srinivas)

To be concluded in the next part.

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