Plans to bolster domestic vegetable production already up and running

The per capita per day vegetable availability is 139g for every person against the minimum requirement of 200g and domestic production of vegetables is 30,595 MT (metric tons) against the requirement of 54,445 MT.

In view of this the Prime Minister announcing that vegetable imports would be stopped from May 19 to restrict rupee flow is not comforting news either.

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