Food security in India- Present perspectives

In India, the situation of food security is going worse day by day, as it is in African countries. Over the period, it has been increased due to less agriculture production and less job opportunities. In a report of Global hunger index (2017), India’s rank is 100 out of 119 countries in the world. It is representing India’s status on poverty, malnutrition and hunger. In 2014, India’s rank was 55th and now in 2017 it is 100. According to the GFSI position of India is 74 out of 113 countries. Due to low demand of food, the problem of food security has been increasing and if the demand can be increased, then the problem of food insecurity might be solved in India. Further, demand can be increased when the job opportunities and agriculture production will be grown. In India, mostly people are dependent on agriculture and agriculture sector should be linked with other sectors, therefore agriculture production and job opportunities can be increased. Looking at the fact of food security, the govt. of India has passed food security bill in 2013. The analysis in this paper points out that without providing proper facilities, increasing job opportunities and agriculture production the problem of food security cannot be solved.