ABSTRACT
It was in April-May 1968 that the country witnessed the wonderful spectacle of large arrivals of wheat grain in the mandi of the Punjab like Moga and Khanna. For all concerned with the procurement, dispatch and storage of wheat grains in the Punjab-Haryana-western Uttar Pradesh region, which is the heartland of the Green Revolution, the task on hand is stupendous. Farmers in the Punjab contribute nearly 40 per cent of the wheat and 26 per cent of the rice needed to sustain the public distribution system. The legal entitlement to food envisaged under the proposed National Food Security Act cannot be implemented without the help of the farm families of the Punjab, Haryana and other grain-surplus areas. The investment made and steps taken to ensure environmentally sustainable production and safe storage and efficient distribution of grains will determine the future of both agriculture in the Punjab and national food security.
