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Published Jul 03 2012 by Topnews.in

India has sufficient food-grains, claims agriculture minister

India's union Agriculture minister Sharad Pawar has said that there is no shortage of food grains in the country as the governemtn has maintained "ample" stock of over 82 million tonnes of rice and wheat. "There is ample stock of foodgrains with the government. Availability of food-grains is comfortable....

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...rice and wheat. "There is ample stock of foodgrains with the government. Availability of food-grains is comfortable. There is no dearth of foodgrains in the country" Pawar said...

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