Indian Agriculture Tasks For The Eightees By

Abstract

During the 60's and 70's the major goal of agricultural research and deve-lopment was to assist the country in ridding itself of its dependence on food imports We hard to get away in the seventies from the "ship to mouth"" existence through which we had to go through in the 60's. Fortunately due to a series of steps in technology develop-ment, organisation of relevant services and above all appropriate public policy support in pricing and marketing, it has been possible to achieve a measure of self reliance in foodgrain supply at curr-ent levels of purchasing power. Through complementary programmes such 'Food for Work' and 'Food for Nutrition', the first steps have been taken to achieve the freedom from hunger goal proposed by India and other countries at the World to Food Conference of 1974, viz., that by 1984 no one should go to bed. hungry. Progress has been achieved in improving production not only in wheat and rice but in several other crops, such as potato, cotton, apple, etc. The National Food Security System is slowly taking chapo, Consequently, tho country could face one of the worst as

DOI

https://doi.org/10.29321/MAJ.10.003307

Pages

5 - 12

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