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Keywords: India, food production: the past experience, contribution of various inputs to increased food production between 1960-62 and 1975-77, irrigation, fertilizers, additional land, sift in cropping system, soil erosion, irrigated farming, expansion of irrigation in the humid regions, improving irrigation efficiency, drainage, maintaining groundwater balance, rainfed farming, efficient cropping zones, managing soil fertility