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Govt’s Bizarre Plans of Dealing With Looming Food Grain Crisis -Subodh Varma

-Newsclick.in Privatisation of grain procurement and cap on procurement subsidies are among the ideas being floated. Amid a slew of worrying news on the food grain front, the Narendra Modi-led government not only appears to be strangely cool, but it is also throwing up bizarre proposals to change the whole procurement-distribution system. This could be the famous ‘using a crisis as an opportunity’ mode of thinking that has led to catastrophic effects in the past –  passing of the notorious farm laws and Labour Codes at the height of the pandemic, attempting to privatise the Covid vaccination drive, cutting corporate tax when the economy is slowing down, etc. In some of these adventures, the government had to go back, as in the farm laws or private vaccinations; in others, the country is paying the cost despite failed objectives, as in tax cuts to the rich.  Adopting the same approach for tackling the looming food grain crisis would be foolhardy to put it mildly. There are millions who depend on government subsidised food grain for survival and any tinkering around with the system could cause mass hunger, besides being politically disastrous.   But first, let us look at what is happening on the food grain front. Bad News on Food Grain Output The recently released First Advance Estimates of food grain production in 2022-23, which cover the kharif season only, show that rice production is likely to be 104.99 million tonnes, down by about 6.77 million tonnes or 6%. Among pulses, tur (arhar), moong and urad are all likely to fall short of last year’s output. Coarse grains and nutri-cereals are likely to show a minor uptick from 35.9 million tonnes to 36.6 million tonnes. Of the six oilseeds that are produced in kharif, output is estimated to be 235.73 million tonnes compared to 238.88 million tonnes last year – a shortfall of just over 3 million tonnes.  All this is happening because of a wayward monsoon that was delayed initially, and then it was deficient in many grain producing areas and excessive in some others. Please click here to read more.