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Forests need to be destroyed to feed the masses?
Jul 15 2008, Sasmita

Food and fuel scarcity is rising high day-by-day. There is a vast gap between the demand and supply of these necessary products. We need an urgent balance to check the fast growing inflation. For that, more of farmlands are required to grow food crop and...

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