Game of Grains:Why India's agri-food policies need a holistic review

摘要

The term 'food basket' here in India actually means a real basket that an average Indian homemaker takes to shop for groceries and food. Some decades ago, her basket (nowadays, 'his' too), will contain plenty of vegetables, small millets and a rich variety of leafy greens in addition to staple grains, such as rice and wheatHowever, many of the above items had been vanishing, albeit slowly from the food basket, and most of these are not even known to the millennials and Gen X.