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Rediscover the ragi -Diptimayee Jena and Srijit Mishra

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published Published on Jul 21, 2022   modified Modified on Jul 21, 2022

-The Telegraph

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has pointed out weather variations, global warming, and water scarcity can adversely affect food production

Climate change and the agrarian crisis are intertwined. They are manifest in the threat to food and nutritional security. These challenges have been further aggravated by the pandemic, the war in Ukraine, and reduced global food production. The looming hunger crisis is especially potent for vulnerable populations living in arid and sub-arid regions. In its report, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has pointed out greater incidence of extreme events, increasing weather variations, global warming, and water scarcity that can adversely affect food production.

In India, the ‘ship-to-mouth’ existence in the 1960s and the geopolitical pressures of the dependence on food aid from the United States of America ushered in the Green Revolution. This input-intensive intervention — a knee-jerk reaction to an emergency shortage on account of multiple factors, including war and drought — led to a permanent solution with an emphasis on production of high-yielding varieties of rice and wheat under irrigated conditions. Between 1950-51 and 1960-61, rice and wheat were cultivated in approximately 50% of the area under foodgrains and 40% of the area under cereals. In 2000-01, the figure changed to 70% and 60%, respectively. In 2019-20, the share was around 75% of the area under foodgrains and nearly 60% of the area under cereals.

The data indicate a shift away from coarse cereals (particularly millets, which the Government of India, as per a gazette notification in 2018, now refers to as nutri-cereals) and pulses. Consequently, per capita per annum foodgrain production increased from 187 kg in 1960- 61 to 230 kg in 2021-22. This was largely due to an increase in rice and wheat, from 104 kg to 174 kg, and maize from 9 kg to 24 kg. Correspondingly, there has been a decrease in millets from 38 kg to 11 kg and that of pulses from 28 kg to 20 kg.

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The Telegraph, 21 July, 2022, https://www.telegraphindia.com/opinion/rediscover-the-ragi/cid/1875745


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