By Basudeb Guha-Khasnobis, Shabd S. Acharya, Benjamin Davis
This quantity discusses the importance of human rights ways to meals and how it pertains to gender concerns, addressing hyperlinks among starvation and the HIV/AIDS pandemic, agricultural productiveness and the surroundings.
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Marginal and small farmers earn their livelihood and meet their food requirements mainly through self-production on their farms. For these households, whose marketable surplus is negligible, provision of production inputs such seeds, fertilizers and irrigation water at reasonable prices was considered as the means of assuring food security. Similarly, for jute growers, rural artisans and the like, who enter the market to exchange their surplus products for food, and for those people who are net buyers of food, the functioning and efficiency of the agricultural marketing system was considered important.
Farmers also have the option to sell on the open market. On the other hand, while there is no obligation on the part of farmers to sell to government agencies, these are bound to buy all quantity offered by farmers at guaranteed prices. Determination of the support levels is governed by the cost of production, changes in input prices, input–output price parity, trends in market prices, the emerging demand and supply situation, inter-crop price parity; the effect on the cost of living; the effect on the general price level; the effect on the industrial cost structure; the international price situation, and parity between prices paid and prices received by farmers (terms of trade).
1 per cent by 2000/1. And second, the share of more stable grains (wheat) increased while unstable grains (coarse cereals) decreased. 6 per cent in TE 2003/4. 2 per cent during this period. 6 per cent. 3 million hectares and the average yield per hectare went up from 770 kg during TE 1964/5 to 1,946 kg during TE 2003/4. The improvement in yield resulted from advancements in technology, irrigation and the diversion of low-yielding crops to high value produce. There has been considerable improvement in the physical access to food in different parts of the country, helped by several initiatives and measures.