India's Food Supply Ahead of Population
BOMBAY — A challenge is contained in the latest annual report of the Pubiic Health Commissioner with the Government of Ihdia to the often repeated ailegation that India is overpopulated. The population of the country is expected to be 400,000,000 in 1941, con:pared with the 353,000,000 recorded in the latest census. The commissioner, nevertheless, says, ' 'In the pres'eiit state of our knowledge it is not safe postivitely to assert that food production cannot keep pace with population increase. - "Although there is evidence of widespread undermitrition in India, there is no evidence to show that the ryot (cuitivator) is worse ,f ed. now than he was in earlier days. Rather is it probable that the absorption of foodstuffs has, over a period- of years, risen in proportion to'the population."
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 65, 3 April 1937, Page 18
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