INDIA OUTGROWS HER FOOD
SISRIOL-S SHORTAGE PREDICTED
BOMBAY, February 6
Amazing figures of how India’s increasing population xvill soon outgrow her food resources have been given at the first All-lndia Population Conference now sitting at Lucknow. Prot. Mukerji said that India’s food shortage was already over niree million million calories. The British Medical Association recently set up a standard of 3,400 calories as the daily minimum for an adult. Malnutrition had so lowered resistance to future epidemics, he said, tnat heavy deathrolls might be expected. In the next 25 years India’s population would have grown from the present 375,000,000 to 440,000,000. This would be India’s absolute capacity, and even so would require the most complete expansion of cultivation, vast measures of land reclamation and irrigation, and the sort of life characteristic of China’s peasantry.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 27 March 1936, Page 10
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