INDIA’S FOOD DEFICIT
STEPS AT LIQUIDATION (Rec. 11.30 a.m.) LONDON, Jan. 15. The Minister of Food, Mr It. Prasad,’ proposed a five-year .plan to expand agriculture to wipe out India’s annual deficit in food grains, which is now 1,500,000 tons and is estimated to reach 7,000,000 tons by 1951. Mr Prasad said the target should be to increase by 11$ per cent, the total ,of food grains production. The scheme would cost £150,000,000 sterling, of which the Government would contribute a quarter, and a quarter would have to come from the provinces. The rest would come from the people, partly in the form of labour.
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Evening Star, Issue 26001, 16 January 1947, Page 7
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