University of Agricultural Sciences, Bangalore

Increase in production is one of the basic points under different plan periods of national policy. It has been remarked that science must help us to speedily improve production, natural and human resoruces can be profitably developed and equally shared, to create more employment and reduce drudgery, to strengthen nation and reduce vulnerability. As per the scientific policy of government of India, the need of our country is to utilise the resource potentials for enhancing the enconomic development of the country. This will result ultimately in increase of per capita income per capita production, per capita consumption and better socio-economic condition of the people. This increase in per capita production and consumption will reduce malutrition and vulnerability to diseases among people. Further, the millennium development goals (MDGS) adopted a traget set of policies in 2000 for reducing hunger and malnutrition population to hald by 2015. Although some progress has been made, hunger and malnutrition still remain the most devastating problems facing the developing world. Today we live in a world whee poverty & hunger are still prevalent. Nutritional deficiency in one form or the other is affecting more than 2 billion people globally.