Food and Nutrition in India

The present book seeks to examine the pattern of production of food among the various sections of the rural population and its impact on the life of the people. \nThe originality of the book lies in the fact that this is the first study of its kind which has utilized emperical data collected from cultivating house holds. The material on nutrition and nutritional deficiency diseases introduces an applied aspect of the study and the whole is likely to be of direct value to local decision makers and to government officials concerned with the rural areas for future planning.