ABSTRACT
The goal of food for all can be achieved only through sustained efforts in producing, saving and sharing food grains. Local level Seed and Grain Banks should be built to ensure crop and food security under conditions of unpredictable monsoon. Gandhiji emphasised that hunger should be overcome without eroding human dignity. He wanted every Indian to have an opportunity to earn his or her daily bread. There are however seriously disadvantaged sections of our population like orphans, street children, widows, old and infirm persons, pregnant women suffering from anaemia, children in the age group 0 to 2 belonging to poor families, and those affected by leprosy, tuberculosis and HIV/AIDS, who need to be provided with food free of cost. Rice, wheat and other grains can help to address protein-calorie undernutrition. But only attention to horticulture, milk and eggs can help to overcome hidden hunger caused by the deficiency of micro-nutrients like iodine, iron, zinc, vitamin A, vitamin B12, etc.
