Question

Average food consumption per person per day in india

Answer 1

This means that in order to bring food consumption in India near the standards of the functioning regions of the world, we need to raise average consumption of staple foodsin India by about a hundred kilogram percapita per year, and given the Indian foodhabits, much of the additional staple, perhaps 70 to 80 kg

Answer 2

India has one of the lowest per capita daily supply of calories, protein and fat, according to the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), a club of rich nations. This is lower than even South Africa, Brazil and Indonesia. Per capita amount of food available is typically calculated as production plus imports minus exports divided by the population.  India is a hugely demand-constrained economy. People don’t have enough money because of which per capita food supply is low despite high production. If people had enough resources, per capita food availability would have been higher and India would not have the huge buffer stocks it currently has,” said Biswajit Dhar, professor at the Centre for Economic Studies and Planning School of Social Sciences at Jawaharlal Nehru University in Delhi.