Hunger in India

The Sunday Morning Herald (March 21):

"But India is also home to a quarter of the world's hungry - about 230 million people - according to a World Food Program report released last month. More than 455 million Indians survive on $US1.25 a day or less, compared with 420 million in 1981."
"Prakash believes the crisis in Madhya Pradesh has deep roots. During the 1970s local people switched from growing traditional crops to cash crops such as soya beans and cotton."

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