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Black pepper export: Reviving a lost legacy
Black pepper export: Reviving a lost legacy

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...

Prof. Kushankur Dey
Electronic trading of farm produce could take off in a big way

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...

Cold storage
Government should encourage contracts by groups of farmers

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...

Contract Farming
Contract farming

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 Kumar Sarangi
Indian agriculture must look at next level of value addition

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. B K Sahu
“Agri-product storage is part of marketing strategy, not just infrastructure”

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...

Wheat steel silos
Foodgrain storage losses in India: Waste not, want not

India needs to properly assess and resolve the issue of losses in foodgrains, which will also boost its growth prospects in the international market....

TPCI-IBT-Business-Perspectives
Rethinking India’s Agricultural Distress

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...


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