Food security is a measure of the availability of food and individuals’ ability to access it. Food security exists when all people, at all times, have physical and economic access to sufficient, safe, and nutritious food to meet their dietary needs and food preferences for an active and healthy life.
Despite our economic growth in the past few decades, food security has been a major challenge in India. A large chunk of the population still sleeps empty stomachs in India. 25% of all hungry people worldwide live in India and 38% of children between 0-5 years are stunted in the country. India has ranked 102nd among 107 countries in the Global Hunger Index.
Providing food security in India has numerous challenges. One big challenge is our population. To feed such a large population, agricultural production needs to be adequate. But factors like flood, drought, a decline in soil fertility, water scarcity, etc bring down the agricultural yield.
Despite these challenges, the green revolution, white revolution, etc have been tremendously successful in making food accessible to the commonality. Moreover, government schemes like the mid-day meal for the school children and cheap distribution of ration to the poor have countered the problem to a large extent.
But there is a lot to be desired as far as food security in India is concerned. Modernization of agriculture to increase its efficiency and allocation of more funds to address agricultural distress are two big reforms agriculture take. We must ensure that no one sleeps hungry in our country.
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