FOOD CROP PROSPECTS-Without Plan or Calculation

March 9, 1974 THE bumper, kharif harvest came and went leaving little impact on foodgrains prices or foodgrains availability. The phenomenon falls into a by now well- established pattern. Following the failure of the monsoon in 1972-73, the government launched a special programme for the rabi crop of that year which cost it nearly Rs 200 crores. Yet the rabi crop yielded only 24.92 million tonnes of wheat