IOR/L/E/8/3302

File includes:

• Progress reports and statements, presented by the Government of India Education, Health and Lands Department, on the “Grow More Food” campaign in India
• Extract from Commerce entitled “Grow More Food Drive” (dated 28^th February 1948)
• Text of an extract entitled “Five Year Plan for India” from Food Bulletin No.3 dated 20^th January 1947
• Text of extracts on reports relating to the “Grow More Food” campaign (published in 1942 from the publication Indian Farming)
• Memorandum on the “Grow More Food” campaign ‘initiated by the Government of India in April 1942’ (11^th January 1944)
• Statistics of acreage and yield of principal food-grain crops in India in 1942-43, 1943-44 and 1944-45 with comparisons to pre-war (WW2) periods
• Statistics of supplies of food-grains in India in 1943-44
• Statistics of exports from India (1940-43) by sea and land, of grain, pulse and flour
• Opening Address by Mr N R Sarker, Member in charge of the Department of Education, Health and Lands, at the Food Production Conference held at New Delhi on 6^th April 1942 (Government of India Press, New Delhi, 1942)
• Resolutions adopted by the Food Production Conference held at New Delhi on 6^th April 1942
• Summary of Proceedings of the First Meeting of the Central Food Advisory Council held at New Delhi on 24^th-25^th August 1942 (Government of India Press, New Delhi, 1942)
• Statement made by Mr N R Sarker on the food position in India at the meeting of the National Defence Council on the 9^th April 1942 (and a further statement of 8^th July 1942)
• Statements made by Sir Jogindra Singh (Member, Education, Health and Lands) to the National Defence Council on food production (October-November 1942)