摘要：Achieving food security has been the overriding goal of agricultural policy in India. Theintroduction and rapid spread of high-yielding rice and wheat varieties in the late 1960s and early1970s resulted in steady output growth for foodgrains. Public investment in irrigation and otherrural infrastructure and research and extension, together with improved crop production practices,has significantly helped to expand production and stocks of foodgrains. Foodgrain production,which was 72 million metric tons in 1965/66, rose to 185 million tons in 1994/95. (In this brief, alltons are metric tons.) Imports, which averaged 6 million tons per year from the mid-1960s to themid-1970s, have been negligible in recent years, and grain stocks, which were just 2.2 million tonsin 1965/66, rose to 31 million tons in 1995.
