After Petrol and Diesel India Chases Food Prices

The finding also shows that China experienced the least volatility of agricultural production during the last 20 years, and three North African countries; Morocco, Tunisia and Algeria are among the most volatile. Countries with variances in yearly agricultural output showed less food security and scored less on the index.

Even the most secure countries scored less for micronutrient availability. Out of the top ten countries in the overall index, it was only France that ranked in the top ten micronutrients.

India is 66^th on the Index, behind only by few points from Sri Lanka which is at 62, yet overtaking Pakistan at 75 and Bangladesh at 81, needs to buck up to be food secure. This survey has brought out the facts of current drawbacks in food sustainability and it also peers deep it to the future. India carries the potential to be among the nations, which has provided well to the people with or without in-house production. As India is the world's major producer of milk and edible oils, also the second-largest producer of wheat and sugar. The necessary measure to attain the requirement demand and supply has to be taken for a more secure future.