Availability, accessibility and utilization of food are the three necessary conditions to achieve food security; yet food self sufficiency in India is often confused with the provisioning of food security. The country's self-sufficiency has also been dented with the massive imports of wheat in recent years.

In a developing country proportion of non-farm sector in total income and employment of the rural household increases. This process of expansion non agricultural activities have been referred as rural diversification. Economic opportunities in the non-farm sector increased in India.