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- Although India's food production has increased by 300 percent, percapita availability of food has reduced, in the last 50 years.
- Human food needs are met by cereals, millets, pulses, oilseeds, fishes, milk products, poultry birds, eggs and fishes.
- There is serious malnutrition problem in India.
- Crop improvement can be done in food crops by introduction, selection, breeding and tissue culture. Hybridization, ploidy breeding and mutation breeding are the principal breeding methods.
- Tissue culture methods can be used in various ways to bring crop improvement in food crops.
- Bio fertilizers are important mean of food production.
- Food crops are affected by several diseases and pests.
- Control of diseases and pests have caused innumerable problem to ecosystem, human health and animal health.
- Bio pesticides are most important means of integrated pest management, as they are eco-friendly.
- India produces maximum milk in the world. But, percapita availability of milk and milk products in India is far less then advanced countries.
- Poultry is an important subsidiary profession in India - with egg production as much as 30,000 millions eggs annually.
- Pisciculture has a vast scope in India.