India, Oct. 15 -- The Government of India has issued a release:
Introduction
Food security is ensuring that all people, at all times, have physical and economic access to sufficient safe and nutritious food that meets their dietary needs and food preferences for an active and healthy life. Achieving this requires not only adequate production of food but also its equitable distribution.
To strengthen production, the Government launched the National Food Security Mission (NFSM) in 2007-08. Its objectives were toincrease the production of rice, wheat and pulses through area expansion and productivity enhancement,restoring soil fertility and productivity, creating employment opportunities andenhancing farm level economy. In 2014-15, NFSM was...