Timeline of food and nutrition in India

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This is a timeline of food and nutrition in India.

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Time period Development summary
20th century "By early 20th century, 3 out of 4 Indians were employed in agriculture, famines were common, and food consumption per capita declined in every decade."[1]

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Year Event type Details
9000 BC "Some claim Indian agriculture began by 9000 BC as a result of early cultivation of plants, and domestication of crops and animals."[2]
3000 BC "Indians might have domesticated buffalo (the river type) 5000 years ago"
3000 BC "By 3000 BCE, turmeric, cardamom, black pepper and mustard were harvested in India."[3][4]
500 BC "Over 2500 years ago, Indian farmers had discovered and begun farming many spices and sugarcane"
1940s "The Grow More Food Campaign (1940s)"
1948–1975 " A hectare of Indian wheat farm that produced an average of 0.8 tonnes in 1948, produced 4.7 tonnes of wheat in 1975 from the same land."
1950s "Integrated Production Programme (1950s) "
1960s Green Revolution in India
1970 Operation Flood
1990–2010 "Between 1990 and 2010, the Indian fish capture harvest doubled, while aquaculture harvest tripled."
1990s "Agricultural exports continued to grow at well over 10.1% annually through the 1990s."[5]
1995 "The Indian government started midday meal scheme on 15 August 1995. It serves millions of children with fresh cooked meals in almost all the government run schools or schools aided by the government fund."
1998 " It transformed India from a milk-deficient nation into the world's largest milk producer, surpassing the USA in 1998,"[6]
2000 "By 2000, Indian farms were adopting wheat varieties capable of yielding 6 tonnes of wheat per hectare."[7][8]
2005 "For example, in 2005, 40% of women in rural areas, and 36% of women in urban areas were found to have mild anaemia."[9]
2008 " In 2008, India was the world's sixth largest producer of marine and freshwater capture fisheries and the second largest aquaculture farmed fish producer. "
2008 "One report from 2008 claimed that India's population is growing faster than its ability to produce rice and wheat."[10]
2009 "In 2009, India was the world's third largest producer of eggs, oranges, coconuts, tomatoes, peas and beans."[11]
2010 "In India national obesity rates in 2010 were 14% for women and 18% for men with some urban areas having rates as high as 40%."[12]
2012 " In 2012, the production from horticulture exceeded grain output for the first time"
2012 "With 21% of its population undernourished, nearly 44% of under-5 children underweight and 7% of them dying before they reach five years, India is firmly established among the world's most hunger-ridden countries. The situation is better than only Congo, Chad, Ethiopia or Burundi, but it is worse than Sudan, North Korea, Pakistan or Nepal."[13]
2013 "The total horticulture produce reached 277.4 million metric tonnes in 2013, making India the second largest producer of horticultural products after China."[14] "During the 2013 fiscal year, India exported horticulture products worth Template:INRconvert, nearly double the value of its 2010 exports.[14]
2014 "As per the 2014 FAO world agriculture statistics India is the world's largest producer of many fresh fruits like banana, mango, guava, papaya, lemon and vegetables like chickpea, okra and milk, major spices like chili pepper, ginger, fibrous crops such as jute, staples such as millets and castor oil seed. India is the second largest producer of wheat and rice, the world's major food staples."[15]
2016 "Recently (May 2016) the government of India has set up the Farmers Commission to completely evaluate the agriculture programme."[16]
2017 "The 2017 Global Hunger Index (GHI) Report by IFPRI ranked India 100th out of 118 countries with a serious hunger situation. Amongst South Asian nations, it ranks third behind only Afghanistan and Pakistan with a GHI score of 29.0 ("serious situation")."[17]
2018 "The 2018 Global Hunger Index (GHI) report ranked India 103rd out of 119 countries with a serious issue of child wasting. At least one in five children under the age of five years in India are wasted."[18]

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  1. ↑ Maddison, A. (1970), The historical origins of Indian poverty, PSL Quarterly Review, 23(92), pp. 31-81.
  2. ↑ Gupta, page 57
  3. ↑ Curry, Spice & All Things Nice: Dawn of History
  4. ↑ The Mystery of Curry
  5. ↑ Gulati, 15
  6. ↑ "India largest milk producing nation in 2010-11: NDDB". Hindustan Times. 2011-12-20. Archived from the original on 2012-10-06. Retrieved 2012-09-09. 
  7. ↑ "Rapid growth of select Asian economies". Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. 2009. 
  8. ↑ "Brief history of wheat improvement in India". Directorate of Wheat Research, ICAR India. 2011. 
  9. ↑ "NFHS-3 Nutritional Status of Adults". Retrieved 2009-11-26. 
  10. ↑ Sengupta, Somini (22 June 2008). "The Food Chain in Fertile India, Growth Outstrips Agriculture". New York Times. Retrieved 23 April 2010. 
  11. ↑ "Country Rank in the World, by commodity". Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. 2011. 
  12. ↑ "India in grip of obesity epidemic". The Times of India. 12 November 2010. Retrieved 14 February 2012. 
  13. ↑ "Superpower? 230 million Indians go hungry daily". timesofindia.indiatimes.com. Retrieved 1 July 2019. 
  14. ↑ 14.0 14.1 Deficit rains spare horticulture, record production expected Livemint, S Bera, Hindustan Times (January 19, 2015)
  15. ↑ "FAOSTAT, 2014 data". Faostat.fao.org. Retrieved 2011-09-17. 
  16. ↑ "Farmers Commission". Archived from the original on 11 May 2010. Retrieved 23 November 2009. 
  17. ↑ "2015 Global Hunger Index Report" (PDF). International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI). 
  18. ↑ "India ranks 103 on global hunger index". economictimes.indiatimes.com. Retrieved 1 July 2019. 
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