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The kind of agriculture that led to a spectacular increase in food grains production once the seeds of Green avoidance strategy emphasizing on assured procurement of surplus food-grains and its distribution among the hungry and needy, is now being dispensed with. What began as a techno-social exercise with the twin objectives of providing food security of the nation and ensure livelihood security for millions of rural poor, is now being thrown open to the vagaries of market forces. Food self-sufficiency is now longer the hallmark of India's food security systems. The author is