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Assessment of programmes on national food security mission in India with special reference to West Bengal [1]

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Food security has been a cause of concern for the Indian economy as the physical and economic access to food with adequate calorie content from different sources has been on the wane over time. The per capita net availability of cereals and pulses declined from 510 gms per day in 1991 to 436 gms in 2008 as per data thrown by the Economic Survey, Government of India, 2009-10.

Publication Date: 
01/07/2010
S. Chatterjee [2], A. K. Giri [3]
Indian Journal of Agricultural Economics [4]
65
3
562
Tags:
Food Security [5], West Bengal [6], India [7], Food Supply [8], Nutrition [9], Agriculture [10], Rice [11], Wheat [12], Legumes [13], Food Policy [14]
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