INDIAN FOOD GRAIN
Rat Damage Estimated
(N.Z.P. A.-Reuter—Copyright) NEW DELHI, March 22
Rats damage between six and seven per cent of India’s total food grain production, the Food Minister, Mr C. Subramaniam, told the House of the People (Lower House) in New Delhi yes*?rday. Such damage would mean a loss of about five million tons, equal to India's total food imports in a normal year. This year India is having to import considerably more to meet famine condition. Mr Subramaniam told the House the damage estimate was based on a recent survey carried out after a report of the Central Food Technological Research Institute in Mysore which had estimated the loss caused by rats as high as 22 per cent of production.
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Press, Volume CV, Issue 31016, 23 March 1966, Page 19
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