Articles by K T Achaya

K T Achaya Vinod K Huria Operation Flood, as related to dairy development, is certainly not a panacea for poverty in India, but it will positively improve the economic conditions of 10 million rural families, over 70 per cent of whom will be landless and small farmers, out of an estimated 96 million.

Meeting Basic Needs through Micro-Planning Central Role of Essential Forestry Vinod K Huria K T Achaya This paper argues that, while centralised planning has a great deal to its credit, some of the basic necessities of rural life, such as firewood, water, dietary micro-nutrients, and better purchasing power, remain unfulfilled. An integrated conceptual approach to micro-planning to meet these needs is, therefore, presented in this paper, Central to such planning is the concept of essential forestry, designed to furnish fuel, timber, fruits, fodder, and manure, and to serve as a pivotal point to open up ways of meeting other baste human requirements.

We Are Eating Better K T Achaya THE SIXTIES THERE is no lack of Indian dietary data for the decade 1960-70. National Sample Survey data are available, but ate mostly in terms of consumption expenditure on food items rather than as nutrient intakes, and further have been repeatedly questioned for accuracy, for example by Tyagi.1 The Diet Atlas of India (1971 revision), published by the National Institute of Nutrition, Hyderabad, 1' summarises data on intakes of calories and proteins in various states made during the prior decade by the State Nutrition Departments and published as their Nutrition Survey Reports, For calorics, the highest average per capita figure was for Punjab (2832), followed by Madhya Pradesh (2779), Uttar Pradesh (2-307), Maharashtra (2281), Jammu and Kashmir (2265), and Karnataka, then called Mysore (2220). The remaining 7 states listed (Rajas- than, Andhra Pradesh, West Bengal, Bihar, Kerala, Gujarat and Tamil Nadu) were low-intake regions, falling gradually in that order from 2044 to 1498 average calories. Protein figures followed calorie levels closely; the same top six .states varied in intakes from 98 to 66 grams a day, and the bottom six

Dairy Development in India: Some Critical Issues Vinod K Huria K T Achaya A great deal of progress has been made towards dairy development on sound lines, but certain basic questions would still bear emphasis. The chief of these is how the energy input-output ratio can be kept as favourable as possible in the absence of sufficient pastureland by which to reduce the cost of animal feeding. In turn this raises the question of whether grain and concentrate feeds will be available in sufficient quantity and at low enough cost to sustain the genetic potential of high-yielding animals, and whether this can be achieved through a total food system in which animals compete minimally with man for foods that both can consume. The answer to this may well set the limit to the degree of dairy development possible.

II : Movements of Oilseeds and Oils S Chandrasekaran K T Achaya Production of specific types of oilseeds in India is strongly regional. Proportions of statewide production of seven oilseeds, and of their derived (Ms, are almost identical, showing that oilseeds are crushed mostly in the same states in which they are produced.