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HUNGER
Hunger remains the No.1 cause of death in the world. Aids, Cancer etc. follow. 42% of worlds under-nourished children live in India. -Global Hunger Index,2010 Over 200 million Indians will sleep hungry tonight. Over 7000 Indians die of hunger every day.
Sources :
-UN World Food Programme -UN World Health Organization: Global Database on Child Growth and Malnutrition, 2006 -UN Food and Agriculture Organization: SOFI 2006 Report -National Commission for Enterprises in the Unorganized Sector (India) -National Family Health Survey 2005 06 (NFHS-3) (India) -Centre for Environment and Food Security (India)
Alarming situation
Every second child in the country being malnourished, every third adult having a low Body Mass Index , almost seven out ten women are anemic and every sixth person suffers from hunger.
Targeted Public Distribution System (35 kgs/ maonth of subsidised food grains Annapurna (10 kgs of free food grain for destitute poor) Antyodaya Anna Yojana
Employment Programmes
National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (100 days of employment at minimum wages)
National Old Age Pension Scheme (Monthly pension to BPL) National Family Benefit Scheme (Compensation in case of death of bread winner to BPL families)
During 2006-2010 Food 1.42 CAGR Population.- 1.66% CAGR Oilseeds at 1.14% pulses, dipping 0.23 %.
Underweight children in India is among the highest in the world,HUNGAMA Report too. 53.1% 93.7% anemic 27 crs. Daily hungry 50 cr. of India's women, children and men are undernourished, subsisting on 260 Calories per day, when the minimum dietary energy requirement is for 1770 and the global average, 2240
Land & productivity India -159 million hectares (mha), , the largest after the United States' (167 mha ) . But while 48.5 per cent of India's land is cultivable, in the U.S. it is only 18.2 per cent, in China, 16.13 % Brazil, 7.82 %
yield of paddy India - 3303 kg per hectare China's 6422 kg, Brazil's 3826 world average of 4233 kg . India's wheat yields are better, being 2704 kg, the US's 2705 kg world's 2829 kg.
Indias Global Hunger Index (GHI) 2008 score is 23.7, which gives it a rank of 66th out of 88 countries. This score indicates continued poor performance at reducing hunger in India.
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30.4 25.7
38.1
22.9 22
36.3
24.1 21.9
27.6
23.7 20.7
24.5
Punjab is ranked 34th when compared to the GHI 2008 worldwide country ranking, while Madhya Pradesh is ranked 82nd. In this state more people suffer from hunger than in Ethiopia or Sudan. 60 percent of the children are undernourished.
More than 1.5 lakh billionaire in India. & growing. 1 time of food in Bombay 6000/Credit - & waiver of loans a farce. Making them to suicide. (NSSO), 48.6 per cent of the farm households surveyed were indebted; of these 61 per cent had operational holdings below one hectare. Of the total outstanding debt, 41.6 per cent was taken for purposes other than farm related activities,
Jhopadi katarai shabnam ko taras jati hai, Jo ghata aati hai, wo mahlon pe baras jati hai.
average debt of M.P. farmer was of Rs. 14218. The number of families under debt has been as high as 32,11,000. Of this 23% had 2-4 hectare land only. Those having land over 4 hectare had average debt of Rs. 23456
Food
Security
Utilisation.
Diff India
from
2010-11
22382
35993
- 13611
1 1 20 19 21 14
1 2 20 21 23 17
43.6
17.25 (-) 4.6 (-)8.33 19.3
(-) 22.4
26.8 11.83 (-) 20.24 26.8 4.6 14.98 3.98 4.26
Growth
Population
From 2001 to 2011 India added 181
million people to its population, an addition just lower than the entire population of Brazil. India should overtake China as the worlds largest country by about 2020-25
Business outlook ?
2010
2020
Population Ch.
Despite average annual GDP growth of 5.8 percent over the
past two decades (10.4 percent in 2010) over three quarters of Indias population lives on less than 2 dollars income per day
Availability of food
Access to food Absorption of food in the body
74
Production
Current Status : Self sufficient.
2. Irrigatiohn.
3. More land under the cultivable area.
76
Procurement
MINIMUM SUPPORT PRICE Applicable on 25 crops, visible only for 2. Benchmark for other varieties(which might be of inferior quality) of the same crop.
Fiscal year Fiscal Year Fiscal Year 2006 2010 2011 650 570 540 1400 1520 1520 900 79.50 1100 950 840 2300 2760 2520 1350 129.84 1260 1000-1030 880 3000 3170 2900 1400 139.12
Source: Ministry of Agriculture 78
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Storage
oLagging storage capacity.
80
Indias cold storage capacity short by 10 million tones. 30% of the fruits and vegetables gets wasted annually(40 million tones amounting to US$13 billion)
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India expenditure on logistics activities-equivalent to 13% of the GDP(higher than the developed nations)
Key reasonshigher level of inefficiencies in the system lower average trucking speeds higher turnaround times at ports cost of administrative delays
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It is the fate of most advisory committees that the government accepts whatever advice suits its purposes and ignores the rest. - Jean Dreze, National Advisory Council
82
Distribution
Inefficient existing methods of identifying and thus, targeting the needy. Leakages, corruption. Insufficient awareness and information. Facts and figures o 58% of the distributed food-grains does not reach the beneficiaries. oAccording to a survey,65.9 million people were BPL in the year 2009 and the BPL Cards issued crossed the 100 million mark.
84
86
Achieving food security requires joint efforts . It has to do with people, entrepreneurial skills,
governance, commitment, equity, ethical issues.
88
good;.
oThe procurement policies, storage facilities and the distribution mechanism need revamping.
90
Coverage Supply
objections
1. Availability of food-no mention. 2. No Mention of Nutrition 3. Targeted, not Universal. (46%R & 28% U) 4. Ineffective grievance redressal. 5. Highly Centralised, No role for PRIs
Future
Agril still on Monsoon.
Poor GR. Budget 12-13 no provision Population still high Poverty increasing Policies favouring corporate sector. Luxurious use of food. Wastage.
Inefficiency.