Food Consumption Pattern in Telangana State-2017

Abstract

Telangana, the youngest and the 29th state of India has realigned its districts into 31 from the earlier 10 districts with an intent of providing better governance to the people and to ensure better reach of government benefits and schemes to the intended beneficiaries. The state government has taken several initiatives to achieve and sustain higher growth of the economy. Being a new state, it needs credible information about different parameters of the state to devise plans and to take better decisions. In this effect, the state has conducted intensive household survey just after its formation to get insights about food consumption pattern of its population in each district. This kind of information would be helpful in knowing the demand of food items at disaggregate level and devise suitable policies and strategies for the betterment of farmers and consumers. In this backdrop, the study was undertaken by ICAR-National Academy of Agricultural Research Management and PJTSAU- School of Agribusiness Management in a collaborative mode. The study was conducted by surveying about 6200 households across all 31 districts of Telangana State covering both rural as well as urban households as per the standard sampling procedure. The data collection was accomplished by using GPS enabled tablet based survey system. Finally, the consumption of all food items have been estimated for each district separately along with the expenditure and percentage of population consuming a particular food item