The problem then - and now - is entitlement or access to food at affordable prices.
Given the low purchasing power of India's poor, even a small increase in food prices contributes to a sharp fall in real incomes.
The current crisis in Indian agriculture is a consequence of many factors - low rise in farm productivity, un-remunerative prices for cultivators, poor food storage facilities resulting in high levels of wastage. Fragmentation of land holdings and a fall in public investments in rural areas, especially in irrigation facilities, are also to blame.
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Source: BBC
