India's 2025-26 third advance estimate puts foodgrain production at a record 376.56 million tonnes, up from 265.0 million tonnes in 2013-14. The National Food…
A catastrophic famine in Bengal during World War II established the founding lesson behind India's food-security architecture: food existing somewhere is not the same as…
Droughts of 1965-66 and 1966-67 forced large-scale imports. India responded by creating FCI for procurement and storage, alongside Minimum Support Prices for farmers.
High-yielding wheat and rice varieties, combined with irrigation, fertilizer, credit and procurement, surged production first in Punjab, Haryana and western UP.
India replaced its broadly universal ration system with household categorisation, concentrating subsidies on poorer families.
AAY households, the poorest of the poor, were given a dedicated entitlement -- 35 kg of foodgrain per household per month.
The National Food Security Act gave statutory backing to food entitlements for up to 75% of the rural population and 50% of the urban population -- roughly two-thirds of…
One Nation One Ration Card let eligible beneficiaries draw their entitlement from any participating fair-price shop, not only their home-registered one -- vital for migr…
Nationwide lockdown cut off income for millions overnight. PMGKAY distributed additional free foodgrain to NFSA beneficiaries at emergency scale.
From January 2023, NFSA entitlements moved from heavily subsidised prices to free of cost, extended for five years from January 2024 for 81.35 crore people.
The third advance estimate for 2025-26 put foodgrain production at a record 376.56 million tonnes -- yet malnutrition and climate stress remain unresolved.
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