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Lesson 20:Post –Independence era

Grow More Food Campaign

This campaign was launched in 1948 as a programme of crop production; field demonstration and contact with the farmers to introduce the improved techniques and initiation of a dialogue with the villagers were the main lines of approach.

But the campaign failed to achieve its targets. Soon after Independence (1947), the Central Government re-defined the objectives of the Grow-More-Food Campaign as the attainment of self-sufficiency in food grains by 1952, and simultaneously increased the targets of production of other crops to meet the shortfall as a result of the partition of the country. At the same time, arrangements were made for integration and co-ordination of the entire campaign for increasing agricultural production. Some state governments associated the public with working of the campaign by setting up non-official committees at the village, taluka, district and state levels. The plans were revised from time to time to make the campaign more effective.