It’s time for a 10-year-plan that says how much rice and wheat will be procured from each state (Wire)

Wire published an article on how there is no road map to reduce the production of wheat and rice, it is now possible to reduce India’s dependence on Punjab and Haryana for food security by procuring from non-traditional states. An IFPRI study of Indian diets has found that households in the lowest deciles get much lower calories from proteins than recommended. (See The study, “A comparison of the Indian diet with the EAT-Lancet reference diet”). So, there is a strong case to increase the production of protein-rich pulses by giving incentive to farmers to reduce the production of carbohydrate-rich wheat and rice.