Food security in India: Critical issues and perspectives — A study of post-reform era

Present age is the age of ‘Transition’ for India’. Our economy and society is becoming more and more global with the reduction in the various restrictions after 1991 reforms. These reductions of restrictions have open up new vistas in the development, but at the same time; they have put serious challenges in front of policy makers, especially in terms of Food-security. Food-security is very crucial for every nation, whether developed or developing nation. Sustained availability, affordability of food in any society is function of various interrelated issues and most prominent of them in the case of India is economic reforms and establishment of WTO. Present Paper is an attempt to study the challenges to Indian food security in the context of policy changes after 1991. Paper presents silent trends in Indian agriculture that have potential to alter food balance in India. And at the same time study also suggests some ways to ameliorate the potential food crisis.