Even when our food grain production has increased from 50 to 150 million tonnes during the last three decades, the progress has been quite unsatisfactory on agricultural development front because
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(a)Only the production of a few items has gone up largely.
(b)Only the production of pulses and edible oil seeds has recorded large increase.
(c)Nutritional diet and 16 oz norm is still not available to our growing number of people having low purchasing power.
(d)This has been achieved on the basis of huge quantities of imported inputs which cannot be sustained.
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