Tapioca and sweet potatoes,on account of their large carbohydrate content have an important place in the existing food economy of the country.With intensive propoganda on the use of these as vegetables as dehydrated or sundried chips.,as flour or sago,it is possible to supplement the storage of cereal production.It is said that even in the past,during periods of famine,tapioca and sweet potatoes have helped in tiding over the difficult period.What would have been otherwise a hopeless famine in the past ha been reduced to a mere food crisis,with the aid of these subsidiary food crops.
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