Is India All Set To Feed 1.7 Billion People By 2050?

BANGALORE: Recently, though India celebrated its 68th Independence Day, a large part of its citizen still suffer in silence. The social issues like poverty, malnutrition and growing population still hindered the country’s development. Such issues are increasing in a developing country like India at a massive rate and in turn have lead to the rise in the number of poor in the country.

Due to which the country will not have enough arable land, irrigation water and energy supplies to ensure higher levels of food production in the coming years.

The most recent study by the Food and Agricultural Organization revealed that 17 percent of the Indian population is undernourished to lead a productive life. Surprisingly, this country alone accounts for 25 percent of undernourished people of the world, much more than the entire Sub-Saharan Africa.

According to the latest estimates, India’s entire population will be equivalent to China’s by 2028 and by 2050, India’s population is likely to touch the 1.7 billion, which will be similar to almost that of China and the U.S. combined, as reported by Asit K Biswas and Cecilia Tortajada for Business Standard.

As per the Global Hunger Index (GHI) for 2013, out of the 78 worst countries in terms of hunger, India  ranks 63. Other South Asian countries like Sri Lanka (43), Nepal (49), Pakistan (57) and Bangladesh (58), fare much better.

This, despite the fact that India has considerably improved from 1990 when its GHI was 32.6, to 2013 when it improved to 21.3.

So, to ensure India’s 1.7 billion people to have access to enough nutritious food by 2050, the current level of food wastage should be check strictly.

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