Many reasons make the food situation risky, such as the outbreak of pests on crops, exploitation by moneylenders and weather conditions.

(i) Pesticides : Swapna takes a loan to buy pesticides. Because they are very expensive. Even after this, her groundnut crop gets destroyed due to the outbreak of insects and due to lack of income, she is unable to repay the old loans as well.

(ii) Role of Moneylenders : Moneylenders lured Swapna into debt trap by giving loans at high interest rates as a result of which Swapna had to sell a piece of her land to repay the loan. This further reduced his agricultural holdings.

(iii) Weather : Weather plays an important role in agricultural production. Bad weather dashed Swapna's hopes and she remained poorer and poorer, her condition did not improve.