Essays on How to Reduce Poverty

|YEAR                       |RICE                       |WHEAT                       |PULSES                     |TOTAL                       |
|2007-08                     |70.81                       |234.55                     |96.91                       |402.27                     |
|2008-09                     |348.09                     |234.55                     |285.93                     |1316.76                     |
|2009-10                     |366.29                     |290.75                     |287.18                     |944.22                     |
|2010-11                     |428.29                     |341.54                     |286.43                     |1056.26                     |
|2011-12                     |508.79                     |370.75                     |283.43                     |1162.97                     |
|Total                       |1722.27                     |1920.33                     |1239.88                     |4882.48                     |

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WHY DO WE NEED FOOD   SECURITY MISSION?

The growth in food grain production has stagnated during recent past while the consumption need of the growing population is increasing.

To meet the growing foodgrain demand, National Development Council in its 53rd meeting adopted a resolution to enhance the production of rice, wheat and pulses by 10, 8 and 2 million tons respectively by 2011.

The proposed Centrally Sponsored Scheme
‘National Food Security Mission (NFSM) is
to operationalize the resolution of NDC and enhance the production of rice and wheat.

KEY FEATURES         OF     NFSM

The scheme to be implemented in a
mission mode through a farmer centric
approach

All the Stakeholders to be actively
associated at the District levels for
achieving the set goal.

The scheme aims to target the select
districts by making available the improved technologies to the farmers through a series of planned interventions.

A close...