Thiruvananthapuram: India has achieved self-sufficiency in food production and has emerged as a global leader in agriculture, the head of CTCRI - an organisation researching tropical tuber crops - said here on Saturday.
Dr G Baiju, Director of the Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR)-Central Tuber Crops Research Institute (CTCRI), said that the country had depended on food imports in the 1950s but has later achieved self-sufficiency in food production.
