Accessing the Food Security Component of Households in Dimapur, Nagaland

Abstract

Green revolution had a great impact on the part of production and food availability. However, the famine issue didn´'t disappear and it was understood that basic reason was less supply of food but rather more the power of purchasing of explicit people social gatherings. In this study, food security components of households were accessed in small, medium and large family from a food basket to obtain the food security index by using both primary and secondary data of production and
consumption pattern of Dimapur. The small size (< 4) family showed the maximum unsecured households of around 86 per cent, the medium size (5-7) family household holds around 50 per cent of secured and unsecured households whereas large size (> 8) family households were also unsecured with 50 per cent.