rather major concerns have centred on food insecurity in the presence of trade surpluses and how to invigorate agriculture to promote growth and employment in populous rural communities where unlike the experience of most countries the size of average land holdings continues to decline a range of supply side programmes such as input subsidies for fertilisers irrigation electricity and farm credit coupled with investments in irrigation are designed to encourage higher yields and production a range of market support prices are set to cover costs and improve farmer returns high food subsidies help poor consumers in september india enacted a new national food security act nfsa which is now implementing the most ambitious right to food programme yet to be applied in history covering over million people and providing kg of food grain per person each year at prices that are about of current retail prices for food grains