India is home to a quarter of world's hungry

people who grow the food we eat are fighting hunger. If the faces of the poor and the figures on the official documents are anything to go by, India is losing its most important battle, the battle against hunger.The UN's Food and Agriculture Organisation's report reveals that India has added more newly hungry millions in the years that followed economic reforms as compared to the rest of the world put together.Out of the 18 million of newly hungry people in the world, approximately 13 million came from India. The government's own records show that the rural family is consuming 100 kgs food grains less in a year than it did a decade ago. Food grains absorption in rural India has fallen to a historic low, lower than before the Second World War as reported in NSS surveys of the UNWFP.