This will produce foundation seed. The foundation seed will have to pass through the registered growers in the first year as well as in the second year. Fertilisers have played a very important role in agricultural production all over the World. Our consumption of fertilisers is very small compared to the progressive countries, it is very low compared to Japan; it is very low compared to China and it is very low compared to the United States of America. Now, Sir, this is a limiting factor, Unfortunately, in the beginning of the Plan, we did not fully realise the importance of fertilisers. We should have planned more of factories and we should have been producing more of fertilisers. In any event, durign the period of the shortfall, we should have found more money for the import of fertilisers, but unfortunately, our foreign exchange position being what it is, I am not sure, to what extent, we shall be able to meet the requirements of fertilisers and this is going to be a limiting factor in our future agricultural production. I shall now come to the food problem. What is the food problem? Sir, the food problem stated in very simple terms is this. In India, even after 59 years of freedom, we are not able to supply our people with adequate quantities of food grains at reasonable prices or at prices which are within their reach. That is the food problem. It appears to be a very simple problem, but actually it is a very complicated problem and a very basic problem in the sense that food prices constitute the core of our entire structure, and in a capitalist society where there is freedom of enterprise, the price structure or the price system governs the development of the economy as a whole. Therefore, Sir, this problem becomes the basic problem.
