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The Food security refers to the availability of food that one can access to it. A household is considered food secure when its occupants do not live in hunger or fear starvation. Commonly the concept of food security as defined is including both physical and economic access to food that meet people’s dietary needs as well as their food preferences. Most of the poor families in the world spend 85% of their total income on food. Food security, both at the national and household levels, has been the focus of agricultural development in India ever since the mid-sixties when import dependence for cereals had gone up to 16 percent. The new approach intended at maximizing the production of cereals and involved building a foundation of food security on three key elements including provision of an improved agricultural technology package to the farmers, delivery of modern farm inputs, technical know-how and institutional credit to the farmer. The performance of agriculture, however, has not been satisfactory.