This year, India's foodgrain production is estimated to rise due to good monsoon.
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Policy advice on export restrictions, price controls and supports, optional foodgrain reserves and input subsidies.
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The Congress authorized formation of a 4 million ton foodgrain reserve for use in international food assistance.
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Only six percent of world rice is exported, compared with 17 percent for wheat, the other main foodgrain.
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Monthly per capita consumption of foodgrains has been declining since the early 1990s.
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The principal crops are millet, rice, other foodgrains, pulse, oil seeds and cotton.
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Yet demand for more foodgrains has come as biofuels have cut into grain use.
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Foodgrains now stand ordinarily at prices which, in the author's time, would have been reckoned famine rates.
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Officials say almost 50 percent of India's foodgrains stocks are eaten away by rodents in fields or warehouses.
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Wheat and rice are the world's major foodgrains, consumed directly or as baked goods like cakes and cookies.
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China and India, reasonably self-sufficient in 2014, may become major importers of foodgrains by 2040.
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A food security law passed by India's last government expanded the number of people entitled to receive cheap foodgrains to 850 million.
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But a wholesale foodgrains market and a popular garment trade business has been hit inside Hyderabad, where a curfew has been imposed.
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This policy will turn jowar into a cash crop and divert huge quantities of foodgrains to alcohol production, creating scarcity and causing food inflation.
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It added that a second vessel with canned meat and around 16,000 tonnes of foodgrains was due to arrive at Nampo on May 19th.