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Food bowl overflowing, but 25% of population still hungry [1]

The Indian government is sitting on one of world's biggest hoards of food grains, about 667 lakh tons as of January 1, 2013.

Publication Date: 
18/01/2013
Subodh Varma [2]
Times Of India (New Delhi) [3]
Tags:
India [4], Malnutrition [5], Children [6], Food Policy [7], Food Crops [8], Public Distribution System (PDS) [9], Poverty [10], Food Security [11]

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