FEEDING INDIA’S MILLIONS
There is a permanent food problem in India to be dealt with apart from war necessities. A population that has increased by 50 million in the last 10 years must press heavily upon the land, and as is pointed out in the report of the Food Grains Policy Committee, presided over by Sir Theodore Gregory, “With a population of nearly 400,000.000 small changes per head of the population can easily result in large changes in the aggregate. An over-all increase in daily consumption of one ounce per head in India would involve a total increase in demand of some 4,000,000 tons of food per annum. It is therefore the cumulative effect of a number of factors all working in the same direction which has produced the present crisis.” This report lays it dow that for the duration of war India must cease to be a net exporting country, and must become a net importing country. The export of rice (India has the largest area under rice in the world) must cease altogether. The Government is urged to press for imports of 1.500.000 tons in the first year after the war. and for imports of 1.000,000 tons per annum in Succeeding years.— ("Indian Affairs,” published in London.)
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume 79, 8 January 1944, Page 5
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