15/08/2026
🌾 Food Security Must Move from Quantity to Quality
The recent editorial in The Hindu — “A timely reset for the Food Security Act” — raises an important point for India’s food and nutrition ecosystem.
India has made strong progress in reducing household food insecurity, but the next step must focus on nutrition security, dietary diversity and better access to quality food.
For a country where wheat and rice continue to remain central to public food distribution, the discussion around strengthening the National Food Security Act is highly relevant. Food security today must go beyond calorie availability and include:
✔ Nutritious staples
✔ Fortified food grains
✔ Scientific storage and distribution
✔ Dietary diversity
✔ Better support for vulnerable households
✔ Stronger linkages between agriculture, processing and public nutrition systems
🌾 WPPS Perspective
Wheat has an important role in India’s food security journey. As a staple consumed across millions of households, wheat and wheat products can contribute meaningfully to nutrition when supported by quality milling, fortification, food safety, innovation and efficient distribution.
The way forward is not only to provide food, but to ensure that every household has access to safe, nutritious, affordable and quality food.
A stronger food security system will need collaboration between government, farmers, millers, processors, researchers and nutrition experts.
🌾 Food security. Nutrition security. Stronger India.
📰 Source: The Hindu Editorial, 13 August 2026
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