Agricultural Renewal and Prosperity

The year 1968 marked the beginning of the green revolution leading to quantum jumps in the productivity and production of wheat and rice. The last 10 years have witnessed a fatigue in the green revolution with the growth rate in foodgrain production falling below population growth. Thus, human numbers are increasing faster than our capacity to make, the goal of ‘Food for All’ a reality. At the same time, consumption is not going up due to inadequate purchasing power at the household level. A famine of jobs/livelihoods as a result of poor growth of opportunities for employment in the rural non-farm and off-farm sectors is leading to a famine of food at the household level…