Sir S.V.Ramamurthi,in his Presidential address at the 9th Agricultural Economic Conference held at Hyderabad in December last,dealt in the main with the problem of food for India.He had made a close study of it as an administrator and as a member of the Indian Famine Commission.He said:For over twenty five years now the production of cereals in India was practically stationary while population was growing at the rate of one per cent per yar,who required half a million tons of rice at the rate of 1 lb.per day.We had to import more than two million tons of rice a year before the war.With the stoppage of imports from Burma and Siam,the situation worsened.These countries were not yet able to supply us the needed quantity.The separation of Pakistan meant a deficit of one million tons of wheat.India had to import cereals to the tune of Rs.100 crores a year.
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