By the middle of the Second Five Year Plan, it became increasingly evident that whatever
the success of the CDP, a new approach would be required if agricultural production was
to stay ahead of the demands of India's mounting population. In 1957-58, India faced
its first post-independence food crisis. In response to this crisis, and on the basis of the
recommendations of the Ford Foundation-sponsored Team of American Agricultural Production
Specialists, a new programme called the Intensive Agriculture District Programme
(IADP), popularly known as Package Programme, was formulated and launched in
the country in 1960-61. Based on the principle of concentration underlying the IADP, the
following programmes had been designed and launched. All these programmes were
growth oriented; they did not address themselves to equity iss'lles.