Indian Food Crisis: Worst Is Not over

For the last few years India has been facing food crisis and as result, the prices of food grains have been on the very high side affecting the purchasing power of the rural and urban poor. As a result, Government’s policies and programmes in regard to reduction in poverty are being severely affected, leading to addition in the crisis. This year due lesser rain the crisis is becoming more severe. Droughts hit or affect not just only agriculture, but also demand for every thing from fuel to soaps. Acreage of rice had gone down by 25 per cent in 2009 and output may go down by 15 per cent. With low yield feared, wheat export has stopped. Falling exports could bring Indian farmers further, too, under heavy clouds. In the light of these observations, the present paper deals with emerging trends, different issues and consequences of food crisis to Indian economy. The paper also suggests a strategy to over come the crisis.