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The problems of hunger and starvation touch the lives of millions around the globe, and one of the main causes of hunger is overpopulation. One typical case is India which currently the world's second most populous country. It could be said that one-fourth of the this world's hungry live in India which according to the UN’s Food and Agricultural Organisation (FAO) the number of ‘hungry’ people in India at 230 million (Deolalikar 2012). The Global Hunger Index (GHI) 2010 ranks India at 67 out of 112 countries; whereas ‘2012 GHI’ (IFPRI) ranks it at 65 among 79 countries. Briefly, all measures point to the hard fact that hunger continues to affect adversely to a majority of the Indian population. (Association of Voluntary Agencies for Rural Development (AVARD) 2012). One method of solving hunger in India is â€Å"promote agricultural development by increasing investments†. Most commentators and policy makers claim that involvement in agriculture help to reduce hunger in two key criteria: 1. Increasing production of staple foods at prices that poor people can afford. 2. Creating employment opportunities and higher incomes in rural areas that will give poor people the means to access food (Agriculture and Natural Resources Team of the UK Department for International Development (DFID) 2004). India's strategy to combat financial condition and hunger has always given great importance to the agricultural sector, because of 70 percent of the population lives in rural areas and the vast majority of them depend on agriculture as their primary source of income (Montek S. Ahluwalia 2012). Acharya (2009, 4) claim that India addressed the situation of hunger and food insecurity across the two measures of long term and short term. Long-term strateg... ...ttention . If this issue is overlooked, it may provoke a repeat of the hunger of 1943, which emerged in the untimely deaths of approximately three million Indian inhabitants (Jamil 2009, 70).The solution of promoting investment in agriculture has the potential to solve the incessant problem of hunger in India. By utilizing modern biotechnology to agriculture, farmers would be making a great surge towards eliminating poverty, bettering health conditions, and embellishing the quality of life for Indian citizens. Developing a modern rural development strategy for hunger reduction in India in the coming decades requires realization of institutional and technological changes. All of this requires a fresh initiative for recognising and enforcing the applicable actions for comprehensive agricultural and rural development in India that are home to the poorest and hungriest.