February 9, 2008
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Food security risk rises as agricultural sown areas decline, prompting urgent policy attention to avert shortages.
Declining area under cultivation is recorded for key crops-wheat, winter rice, coarse cereals, rabi oilseeds, mustard/rapeseed, rabi pulses and gram-yielding an aggregate reported reduction in sown area of approximately four percent. The data include missing entries for barley and maize and indicate reduced cropping coverage this year relative to the prior year, raising concerns about domestic food availability and the need for policy focus on agricultural land use and sowing trends to mitigate food security risks.