Our greed for making a fast buck is the root cause for such food shortage. Our Poor farmers are lured by the vested intrests to part with their land for a few lakhs and they fall prey to such quick money. Our government should put a ban on construction in the agricultural land and also take strict action who contrusts building in agricultural land. Farmers should be given all incentives to produce more goods instead of luring them with fast buck for sale of their land. If rumours are to be believed Dawood has pumped almost 2500 crores of black money into the real estate business and he has spread his wings across south India especially Kerala, Tamil Nadu, Karnataka where the land prices have gone up like anything. This has also made the rich farmers lazy and they now sleep over loads of easy cash which they have amassed by surreptitious dealings (more in black money) by selling of their land, more often in piece meal. More over the government is encourging to have SEZs all over the country in lush green areas (not remote areas where infrasture is absent) and this is going to have a major impact on the availability of land for agricultural purpose. At the end we will be left with only malls and SEZs but no land to cultivate. Unless this trend is arrested India is going to face severe food crisis in the months or years to come. Aping too much West is going to take a heavy toll on the lives of the common people. A state like Kerala where the Industrialists fear to tread
