An analysis of transformation of trends of food basket in India

The present study has been based on the data from five major quin-quennial rounds of the National Sample Survey on the Household Consumption Expenditure in India during 1993-94, to 2011-12, and proposed to bring out the temporal, spatial and cross sectional differences in the food consumption pattern of Indian households. The study revealed a considerable decline in the monthly per capita cereal consumption from 13.40 kg in 1993-94 to 11.23 kg in rural India in 2011-12, the corresponding figures for urban India being 10.63 kg and 9.32 kg.