The purpose of the present paper is to review briefly the growth of population and the expansion of food production in India in the past quarter century and to assess the prospects of achieving a balance between population and food in the near future. It will be evident that, in spite of...

In spite of the grim forebodings of the doomsday men and the depressing defeatism of some agricultural scientists and economists, I remain sanguine about man's capacity to feed himself in the years to come. The fact that I am optimistic does not, however, mean I am complacent. The overwhelming...