Nutritional Security through National Food Security Mission for an Atmanirbhar Bharat
Bhagya Vijayan*
Division of Agricultural Extension, ICAR- Indian Agricultural Research Institute, New Delhi, Delhi (110 012), India
Manjeeth Singh Nain
Division of Agricultural Extension, ICAR- Indian Agricultural Research Institute, New Delhi, Delhi (110 012), India
DOI: NIL
Keywords: Atmanirbhar Bharat, National Food Security Mission, Nutritional Security, Productivity
Abstract
The era of green revolution has been a boon to Indian Agriculture during 1960’s. Nevertheless the quintessential part of nutritional security of the masses was always forgotten during policy implementation. The same is addressed by the National Food Security Mission (NFSM) in various fronts. Moreover India is treading a path to be Self Reliant (Atmanirbhar). NFSM mainly focuses on increasing productivity and nutritional security. NFSM addresses this issue with its various programme components. Keeping abreast of these trends, an effort has been made to analyze whether the programme implementation dovetails with the aspirations of farmers and masses, in terms of agricultural input and market requirements of farmers and nutritional security of the masses. This article also throws light on the programmes on the anvil which would be incorporated with NFSM to make a India nutritionally secure country. It is already high time to make a transition from food security to nutritional security.
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National Food Security Mission, 2020. Progress Report 2019-2020.
Report of the High Level Committee on Reorienting the Role and Restructuring of FCI, 2015.
UNICEF/WHO/World Bank Joint Child Malnutrition Estimates Expanded Database: Stunting, Wasting and Overweight (July 2020, New York).