Why Can't India Feed Its People?

摘要

That year's wheat crop had slumped by 15 percent, the rice harvest by 12 percent, and prices in the markets were soaring. Far from his village in eastern India, ships loaded i with wheat were steaming toward the country, part of Dwight Eisenhower's plan to sell surplus grains, tobacco, and dairy products to friendly countries. All India Radio gave daily updates on the convoys, and the army barricaded ports in Mumbai and Kolkata against the hungry crowds. "It was this very coarse, red wheat," says Narsingh Deo Mishra, a childhood friend of my father's and now a local politician in Auar, their home village.