No country can feed 1.15 billion people: Pranab
Updated on Dec 26, 2010 08:21 pm IST
Highlighting the need for greater self sufficiency in food production, Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee on Saturday, candidly said that no country could feed 1.15-billion people, regardless of its infrastructural capacity.Addressing a business seminar on Indian economy in the Kolkata, Mukherjee asserted that farmers needed to be given regulative prices to motivate them to produce more.
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