India since ages had been an agrarian economy but its production is erratic. The success of green revolution helped India in changing its status from “begging bowl” to “self sufficient” nation. Despite the great success India still faces the problem of food security. With the high rate of growing population and large number of population with nutritional deficiency, the task of achieving food security becomes even more complicated in nature. The legislations for achieving food security also have been under scanner from time to time as to how much they have contributed in achieving the goal of food security. The recent trend in the production of food grains have shown a downfall but the remarkable achievement in the production of the non-food grains food commodities such as fruits, milk, eggs and fish have opened a new course of options for achieving food security. Thus the current paper highlights on issue of growing population and nutritional deficiency in India, the recent trends in agricultural production and the diversification of food consumption in India. The paper also analyses the buffer stock and buffer norm of India and tries to find out as to where the actual problem lies in the process of food security and tries to sort the problem through effective mechanism.
Agrarian economy, Population, Nutritional deficiency, Diversification of food consumption, Buffer stock, Buffer norm, Effective mechanism
