Impact of Occupational Structure on Household Food Security in Malda District (west Bengal)

Food security is the burning problems not only for India all over the world due to the rapid growth of population and decreasing of agricultural land because establishment of settlement, industry, construction of transport and offices. The paper attempt to examine the relation between food security and occupational structure. According to survey only 31.62 percent households are food secure and remaining 68.38 percent are insecure. Most of services (64.77 per cent) and business men (39.83 per cent) household are food secure. Very negligible percentages of food secure household are found among the farmers (21.91per cent), daily labourer (12.24 per cent), agriculture labourer (9.09), and other workers (20.00 per cent).