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The Importance of Healthy Grain in India
Food is today available. My thoughts go back to the 1960s. The Green Revolution late 60s and early 70s led to food sufficiency, which later on went to food access. We have actually quite a lot of food today. India can even export a bit of food. There are still people who cannot afford to buy that food. But then we have the PDS system, where food is being distributed free to people. Now one of the things we need to do is to give subsidies to farmers for producing green leafy vegetables and other non-starchy vegetables and fruit. And if their consumption goes up as well as the protein consumption, the vegetable protein will increase at about 20
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