India constitutes over 50% of the world's hungry.
India , though a rapid developing country yet a major chunk of the population is still under poverty. As such widespread hunger and food deficiency is still prevalent across the country . And latest finding by the World Food Organisations reveal that since mid 1990’s over 30 million people have been suffering from hunger and malnutrition in INDIA.
Some of the major contributors to this fact are-
1. Poverty: People donot have the adequate capital to buy food. And one of the major cause of this is unemployment
2. Illiteracy: Lack of knowledge about proper diet and nutrition. A balance between the various components is absolutely necessary for our health especially for children and pregnant ladies.
3. Deforestation : It mainly refers to the cutting down of trees and industrial usage of agricultural land. In rural India agricultural land not only act as a source of employment but also provides them their basic diet. So to a farmer , land is all and everything in his life.
4. Natural Disasters: Floods , cyclones and other natural calamities are like devils of disaster especially to the farmers . A single flood spoils the production of one full season, leaving the farmers fully empty-handed. Also climatic condition and rainfall distribution of a particular plays a major role in determining the annual yield. Another major factor which contributes to the annual yield is the water holding capacity of the soil. And especially in hot and dry summers , the low water holding capacity of the soil of a region can act as a spoiler.
Recent financial and economic crisis have pushed many people into hunger.
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