Cereal Consumption Declining, Pulses Production Declining: - A Great Cause of Worry for India
Journal Title: International Journal for Research in Applied Science and Engineering Technology (IJRASET) - Year 2017, Vol 5, Issue 4
Abstract
Since the mid-1990s, India has been experiencing a rise in its economy, which has been accompanied by an improvement in the country’s food supply. This also has been accompanied by the change in food consumption pattern across the country due to various reasons such as, income induced diet diversification, increasing urbanization, impact of globalization and changing lifestyle of people. Since the advent of Green Revolution and also a lot of other factors which include assured prices paid through public procurement, the cereal production in the country has been gradually increasing. According to the data released by The Government of India the net production of cereals has increased from 138 million tonnes in 1990 to 198 million tonnes in 2011. But according to the National Sample Survey Organization, the per capita annual household consumption has dropped from 155kg in 1993-94 to 129kg in 2011-12, about 17 percent decline in 18 years. In contrast the net production of pulses have almost been stagnant, from 12.5 million tonnes in 1990 to 17.3 million tonnes in 2011 but even with imports India has not been able to meet the domestic demand for pulses. The changes in availability and intake of pulses and cereals have had a serious implication on the country’s nutrition. Dietary energy intake has declined from 2,153 kcal per person per day in 1993-94 to 2,071 kcal per day in 2011-12. There is an urgent need to upgrade varieties, practices and policy support for pulses.
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Jivika Sagar
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- EP ID EP23858
- DOI http://doi.org/10.22214/ijraset.2017.4152
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