Can we not plea to the Govt to train local unemlpoyrdd educated middle aged graduate stadard XII passwomen as Food Counselor visiting a village fortnightly Can we not involve AHA workers and teachers(retd) too??

ROLE OF FOOD COUNSELLOR IN RURAL AREAS

. Continuous motivation of community is warranted: Unfortunately imparting knowledge cannot be equated with   community acceptance, awareness and practice. Fulfillment of gap between knowledge and practice   is possibly another key issue.

            Author strongly feels that it will take few decades to achieve food security by standard foods. Till then we can   educate and motivate the rural community to improve social acceptance of low cost locally available vegetables, food grains, fruits, proteins which are falsely believed not useful for human consumption and scientific cooking methods.

TAKE HOME MESSAGE

1). India being multi-linguistic, multi-religious and multi-ethnic population with varying food habits it is necessary to develop special programme to tackle the needs of different groups.

2) We have to check population growth & Role of newer contraceptives: As because India is already a food deficient country as most of agriculture is rain dependent , Additionally , if  we can’t improve agricultural production then we have to stabilize the population, But t how?  This can again be achieved by popularizing the use of more contraceptives so that there are minimal unwanted pregnancies and unplanned pregnancies in India. To increase the contraceptive options .Basket full of contraceptives so that population is stabilized before the projects year of 2045. Currently most  citizen of India are always keeping mind that there is annual growth of population at the rate of 1.9%Therefore, import / manufacturing of newer contraceptive is a high need charity, because any new contraceptive marketed will slow down the population growth. Incidentally some studies have shown that there is as high as 11% rise of C P R (couple protection rate) after a new contraceptive become available in a country.  At least 7 newer contraceptives ( new biodegradable implants  skin patch, progesterone only vaginal ring (PVR) , monthly inj (inj Lunelle) .  Newer cervical caps and diaphragms, and newer spermicidal) which are approved by different International agencies for last one or two decades back are unavailable in India even in 2009.   Unless these newer contraceptives  are available in our country in near future then  Married Women have no other choice but to select IUCD, Condom, Inj DMPA-3 monthly  and Combined OCP. PO is too costly and not supplied but Govt. 

  If population rises still at an escalating rate --then how can we achieve Food Security?
Can we really  improve nutrition unless we check population growth?

           

 It is the one of the most important barrier not only in implementation of different nutrition-based-programmes but also other programs run by Govt. of India and other NGOs.