India may face genuine food shortage after four decades
Sudhir Chadda
Jul. 8, 2012

Excessive food exports, shyirtage of rainfall and power have created the high probability of food shortage in India after four decades.

Millions of acres of northern India farming land are facing water shortages due to the late arrival of monsoon rains, deepening already acute power shortages and disrupting the sowing season of staple food crops at a time when India's economy is fragile.

Since green revolution in seventies under Jagjivan Ram and Indiara Gandhi, India never faced such high probability of acute food shortages.

On Friday, Sharad Pawar, India's agriculture minister, acknowledged for the first time the weather's toll on crops. "June rainfall was not satisfactory for agriculture and water reservoirs," Mr. Pawar said.

Heavy monsoon rains typically arrive in June, but some parts of northern India, an expansive agricultural belt on which millions of people rely for food, have yet to see a drop o0f rain. Excessive heat wave in America is signaling Alnino in India and rain fall can be minimal this year creating a massive crop failure for a nation that has to feed 1.2 billion people.

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