Indian black pepper is undergoing a vicious cycle of declining production and cheap imports. This necessitates urgent measures to stem the drop in production and instill confidence in the farming comm...
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Prof. Kushankur Dey, IIM Lucknow, feels that institutionalising of electronic trading and transaction of farm produce is a welcome move. The electronic National Agriculture Market (eNAM) should play a...
Prof. C. S. C. Sekhar, Institute of Economic Growth agrees that as contract farming ordinance comes into play, a single small farmer will always be at a disadvantage vis-à-vis a large buyer. The gove...
The Food & Agriculture Organization defines contract farming as an agreement between farmers and processing and/or marketing firms for the production and supply of agricultural products under forward ...
Santosh Sarangi, IAS Officer, observes that while private sector investment has come in for primary and secondary food products, players need to do a fair deal of research regarding consumer tastes an...
Dr. Basanta K. Sahu, Faculty, IIFT, argues that food grain storage should be more in the purview of the private sector, while the government should continue to play the key role and remain committed t...
India needs to properly assess and resolve the issue of losses in foodgrains, which will also boost its growth prospects in the international market....
While India aims to improve its competitiveness in export of agricultural commodities, there is a need to first construct a more farmer-friendly ‘domestic procurement facility’. That, along with a...