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Timeline of food and nutrition in India

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| 1936 || Nutrition || Program launch || The [[w:National Planning Committee|Planning Commission (India)]] defines goals to alleviate poverty by setting targets in terms of nutrition (2400 to 2800 calories per adult worker), clothing (30 yards per capita per annum) and housing (100 sq. ft per capita).<ref name=pcomindia>{{cite web|url=http://planningcommission.nic.in/reports/genrep/surya.pdf|title=Nutritional Norms for Poverty: Issues and Implications|author=M.H. Suryanarayana|publisher=Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research|accessdate=1 July 2019}}</ref>
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| 1940s || Food || Production || The Grow More Food Campaign launches as a special program iniciativeinitiative.<ref name="Economic Environment of Business and Environmental Management"/>
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| 1943 || Nutrition || Crisis || The {{w|Bengal famine of 1943}} breaks out, leaving a death toll at about 1.5 million. It is considered one of the world's worst food disasters.<ref name="50 Years of Food in India"/><ref>{{cite book |last1=Sen |first1=Amartya |title=Poverty and Famines: An Essay on Entitlement and Deprivation |url=https://books.google.com.ar/books?id=FVC9eqGkMr8C&pg=PA52&dq=Bengal+famine+of+1943+toll&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjQrs-7kPvjAhX9HLkGHUE8BWcQ6AEIPDAD#v=onepage&q=Bengal%20famine%20of%201943%20toll&f=false}}</ref>
| 1947 || Food || Policy || The Foodgrains Policy Commission is followed by a number of Commissions which examine the food policy from time-to-time.<ref name="Historical perspective of food management in India"/>
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| 1947–1948 || Food || Policy || The food policy of independent India was is examined by a Foodgrains Policy Commission, and concludes that imports are necessary to enable maintenance of central reserves to guard against crop failures and such reserve could be of the tune of two million tons. A rationing system, introduced during the {{w|World War II}}, is recomended as also the need to import foodgrains.<ref name="Historical perspective of food management in India"/>
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| 1948–1975 || Food || Production || The average output per hectare of an Indian wheat increases from 0.8 tons to 4.7 tons of {{w|wheat}} in the period.<ref name="How Agriculture 2.0 will transform India?"/>
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