Editorial Notes

Abstract

As Roosevelt said "Food will continue to be weapon in all efforts towards ensuring a more orderly, prosperous and peaceful country". At the present juncture, the Indian Republic is deficient especially in her needs of vital food and these deficits show a trend of becoming greater as years pass. The normal food deficit in the Madras Presidency is about 1 million tons, mostly of rice and a little of millets but with the failure of the monsoons in the State for a number of years in succession and the havoc caused by the periodic cyclones, the situation has become really grave. Apart from basic food crops, other supplemental foods also need to be produced in greater quantities. Increased production in agriculture is a complex matter requiring the simultaneous a aneous application of a number of different measures, but varying with different sets of conditions. It needs the help and co-operation of all the State, the public and the consumer to achieve these targets, On the State falls the responsibility of launching programmes for this purpose and on the public publ rests an equal share of the responsibility to co-operate with the Govern-ment and promote the working of these schemes.

DOI

https://doi.org/10.29321/MAJ.10.002368

Pages

39 - 40

Creative Commons

Copyright

© The Author(s), 2026. 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.

Keywords