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Norway now grows less than 40% of its food

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Norway now grows less than 40% of its food
Wheat growing in a field near Lillehammer - Photo: Jon Gos/Flickr

Less than 40 percent of the food eaten in Norway is now grown in the country, new figures from Norway's Directorate of Health and Social Affairs have revealed.

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The share of Norwegian grown food is down five percent on 2012, bringing the country to its lowest self-sufficiency rate in decades. 
 
The Directorate blamed the decline on a poor harvest in 2013, which reduced Norway's domestic production of food grains. 
 

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