self-sufficient

It is difficult to quantify China’s semiconductor production, but even the most aggressive forecasts fall short of the country’s demand, illustrating its challenge in becoming fully self-sufficient, many experts said.

The basin itself holds enough deposits to allow Brazil to become close to self-sufficient in potash.

The new company will be “financially self-sufficient,” Eni said, with plans to invest more than $15 billion over the next five years.

It also turns self-sufficient producers into supplicants pleading for subsidies.

He and other board members said the plan will help L.A. weather droughts, become more locally self-sufficient and take less water from distant sources.