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Food for thought

  • 29/09/2001

 Food for thought Newspapers come replete with news of starvation deaths while stocks go waste in government storage houses. Food scarcity in India is a more a human-made problem that one brought upon by nature's vagaries. Public distribution system, food and grain prices, gender-related problems and sheer poverty combine to have a debilitating effect on India's public health. In a country where some states still remain food deficit

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