Food Security in India

Food security is undoubtedly affected when a calamity or disaster like earthquake, flood, drought, tsunami, widespread failure of crops occurs which causes famine and food scarcity etc.
① If a disaster or calamity or say flood, occurs, total production and supply of foodgrains decreases. It creates a shortage of food in the affected areas.
② The shortage of food causes the price rise in foodgrains. At the high prices, poor people cannot afford to buy food.
③ The condition worsens and becomes more grave when such calamity happens in a very widespread area for a longer duration. It may cause a situation of starvation.
④ If this starvation is at mass level, it might take a turn to famine. A famine often leads to widespread deaths due to starvation.
⑤ The destructive epidemics also spread over the affected areas due to forced use of contaminated water, decaying food and loss of body resistance because of weakening due to starvation. India's poor population amounts to more than 300 million people, with almost 30 percent of India's rural population living in poverty.