This rationalization of food policy needs to come up high in priority, with changed policy instruments to ensure food security in the country. Discuss (200 Words)
Refer - The Indian Express
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IAS Parliament 3 years
KEY POINTS
· From more than 70 per cent poor in 1947, the head-count ratio (HCR) of poverty in India dropped to 21.9 per cent in 2011, as per the erstwhile Planning Commission’s estimates based on the Tendulkar poverty line.
· There has been tremendous success in this respect, with the country moving from a ship to mouth situation in the mid-1960s to become the largest exporter of rice (17.7 MMT) in 2020-21, amounting to 38.5 per cent of the global rice trade.
· But it has come at a huge cost of groundwater depletion. Future policies need to focus on greater sustainability.
· Indian Council for Research on International Economic Relations on food policy shows that a rational policy of gradually moving towards cash transfers to targeted beneficiaries and can save food subsidy bill.
· This can be achieved without sacrificing the objectives of supporting the vulnerable population as well as giving a fair deal to farmers.
· This needs to be supplemented with diversification in cropping pattern to prevent the problem of hidden hunger.
· The millets and food grains have to reach the entitled beneficiaries in fair price shops via effective governance, these needs cooperative federalism.
· At the same time food has to be made available to citizens, which can be achieved through proper procurement policies by the government.
Abdul hakkim 3 years
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