Reducing Poverty and Hunger in India : The Role of Agriculture
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In the 1960s India was deficient in foodgrain production and dependent on imports of wheat, financed by PL480 assistance from USA. Understandably, the focus of Indian policy in this period was to increase foodgrain production with a view to ensuring food security. This objective was successfully achieved by the spread of the Green Revolution in the 1970s, beginning with wheat and then expanding to rice. This achievement must count as one of the major success stories in development, considering that influential groups such as the Club of Rome, in the early 1970s, had despaired of India being able to feed its growing population.
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