India was likely to face an acute shortage of foodgrains by 2020, if it did not take immediate and concrete measures, warned the Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR). "India needs to prepare itself in advance as foodgrain scarcity is likely by 2020," said Swapan K Dutta, deputy director-general (DDG), ICAR, at the India International Crop Summit, 2011, in Bhubaneswar.
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