You should know about PL 480 wheat import from USA during 1970s & India's HCQ export to them in 2020. See the difference between Indians & Americans. (200 words explanation) After independence, India relied on food crop supplies from the United States under Public Law 480 (PL-480) against rupee payments. Later this measure was considered as a folly. India was not technologically developed on Independence. Despite very good annual agricultural growth form 1956-65 of 3% per annum, India had been facing food shortages. Agricultural growth was not promising as demand was rising with population at 2.2% per annum from earlier 1%. Indian market was not able to meet the demand fully and then India started importing form U.S from 1956 under PL-480 scheme. Later it turned to be a wrong step as reasons behind this are:- Increasing dependence on food from U.S, Indo-Sino(1962), Indo-Pak(1965) war and two successive famines (1965-66) further aggravated the s...