This year, India's food grain production is estimated to rise due to good monsoon.

Policy advice on export restrictions, price controls and supports, optional food grain reserves and input subsidies.

The Congress authorized formation of a 4 million ton food grain reserve for use in international food assistance.

Only six percent of world rice is exported, compared with 17 percent for wheat, the other main food grain.

Monthly per capita consumption of food grains has been declining since the early 1990s.

The principal crops are millet, rice, other food grains, pulse, oil seeds and cotton.

Yet demand for more food grains has come as biofuels have cut into grain use.

Food grains now stand ordinarily at prices which, in the author's time, would have been reckoned famine rates.

Officials say almost 50 percent of India's food grains stocks are eaten away by rodents in fields or warehouses.

Wheat and rice are the world's major food grains, consumed directly or as baked goods like cakes and cookies.

China and India, reasonably self-sufficient in 2014, may become major importers of food grains by 2040.

A food security law passed by India's last government expanded the number of people entitled to receive cheap food grains to 850 million.

But a wholesale food grains market and a popular garment trade business has been hit inside Hyderabad, where a curfew has been imposed.

This policy will turn jowar into a cash crop and divert huge quantities of food grains to alcohol production, creating scarcity and causing food inflation.

It added that a second vessel with canned meat and around 16,000 tonnes of food grains was due to arrive at Nampo on May 19th.