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  • Publication | 2022
Pests, Pandemics, Preparedness and Biosecurity
Global Food and Nutrition Security

India is a growing global power with consistent high economic and technological growth. However, the share of agriculture in the gross domestic product is declining. Reduced input-use efficiency of the factors of production, soil organic carbon and fertility, water table, nutrition and livelihood security, food safety coupled with vagaries of climate change and increased pests and pandemics and human-animal conflict due to overlapping food niche characterise Indian agriculture at present (ICAR, 2020).