US eating more, producing less
The UPA government has said on Thursday that American cereal consumption had gone up substantially despite a significant decline in food production in North America.
Quoting Food & Agriculture Organisation (FAO) figures, minister for science & technology Kapil Sibal said that cereal intake in India was projected to have grown by a mere 2.17% from 193.1 million tonnes in 2006-07 to 197.3 million tonnes in 2007-08.
Around the same time, the Americans had eaten a lot more. Kapil Sibal further said, “In the same period, consumption of cereals in the US has been projected to have grown from 277.6 million tonnes to 310.4 million tonnes”.
The Americans have indeed eaten much more than the rest of world. While the world average of increased cereal intake for the past year was 2.06%, that for the US was a whopping 11.81%.
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