Why this"Food Orisis"in India when India is mainly an agricultural country and more than 80%of the population are agriculturists?The causes are not far to seek.Agriculture as such is still in a backward state- in spite of all attempts to improve it and food production is far below consumption.This is especially so in the case of rice,the demand for which has become great while its production is low.The whole problem of food production has thus centred round rice as far as the Madras province is concerned.
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