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Crop diversity key to reducing hunger, malnutrition in India -Sudhansu R Das

-Deccan Herald

The country suffered a massive crop diversity loss during the British Raj; later, the green revolution eroded much of the native crops

The UN World Food Programme says that 45 million people worldwide are on the brink of starvation. The hunger situation in India is no less alarming. The Food and Agricultural Organisation (FAO) in its report, “The State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World, 2020” stated that 189.2 million people are undernourished in India. India dropped from rank 94 to rank 101 in the Global Hunger Index 2021; it is placed below Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Nepal and Sri Lanka. The recently developed experience-based indicator called the Prevalence of Moderate and Severe Food Insecurity (PMSFI) reveals that there were about 43 crore people facing moderate to severe food-insecurity in India in 2019. India should urgently repair its crop diversity to reduce hunger and malnutrition in the country.

The country suffered a massive crop diversity loss during the British Raj; later, the green revolution eroded much of the native crops. The British introduced mono crops to maximise profits, without caring for the indigenous crops. The disappearance of the weather-resistant crop back-up resulted in a famine-like situation after 1950 and compelled the government to allow high-yielding wheat and paddy during the Green Revolution. It has saved millions of people from starvation, but at the cost of native crop diversity.

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