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Can Central Bank's (RBI) Policies boost Economic Growth without addressing Food Insecurity? By:  Vijay Sardana Photo from The Telegraph With the growing inflation of food items, poverty is enhancing in India. Quality of life and health is suffering.   It is extremely important that we should focus on improving the food supplies. It is also important that we should plan ahead and be ready to feed the growing population and also to meet growing demand of agriculture raw material by industries as well as to meet export demand. Food security is must for peaceful democracy: In last few decades our agriculture scientists have done a great job to feed the nation. Now time has come we should relook into the agriculture as a foremost profession because without food security no democracy can sustain its meaningful significance for the common man. Any country depending upon food and energy security based on imported supplies cannot retain its independent policy environm...

Hungry and Malnourished Republic of India after 64 years... What has ch anged in economically liberalized India? When we are celebrating our Republic Day and endorsing our constitutions principles in which we have the Fundamental Right to Life with Dignity, have we delivered the same to our citizen? Mid of all the celebrations, let us not forget the ground realities.  This Presentation compares India's food security status with poor countries, countries with food deficiency, underdeveloped countries, etc. Please see the following graphs carefully.  All data are from various international organisations like UNICEF, WHO, FAO, UNCTAD, World Bank, etc. Government of India is part of these organisations and shared the data with all.  I am not trying to paint a bad picture of India but trying to remind, where we stand and how far we have to go? It is time to think and act. We all have responsibilities.  ...

Future of Packaged Edible Oil Market  

Protect Trade Secret of Your Company Effectively   By: Priyanka SARDANA Advocate, Trade Mark & Patent Attorney and  Vijay SARDANA After traveling to hundreds of Agribusiness companies and food processing facilities in India and in various parts of the world, to conduct skill development programs, technical trainings, audits or project related work, it is clear that every business has some form of trade secret which plays and important role in the success and growth of the business. Have you ever though why in western world in fiercely competitive market certain employees are paid hefty salaries. Why many companies don’t allow post-retirement employment and have cooling period before they join the same trade with competition. Why their post-retirement benefits are protected and ensured. Unfortunately only very few of the companies are aware of their own trade secrets because many promoters and senior managers are not aware what is unique and g...

Managing Intellectual Property Series Economic & Legal Aspects of Intellectual Property By: Priyanka Sardana Advocate, Supreme Court, Trade Mark & Patent Attorney & Vijay Sardana It is important for any creation to be protected under the law so that inventor must have incentive to use his or her creativity for the benefit of the society and for his or her personal benefit as well within the provisions of overall legal system prevalent in the society. While extending legal protection it is important to understand the scope of the intellectual property within the overall legal framework and economic implications of the objective of the subject under consideration. Scope of intellectual property rights Intellectual property may be analyzed in terms of its subject matter, the actions it regulates in respect of the subject matter, the duration of particular rights, and the limitations on these rights. Intellectual property law is conventiona...

Future of Agriculture and Food Systems – Can we deliver? By: Vijay Sardana [1] Traditional Markets for Perishables in India (Photo by Vijay Sardana) With increasing awareness and competition, consumers are becoming very demanding about their health and performance oriented. “Right Food” is becoming a major item to ensure good health and high  performance   Keeping leadership in food and food processing industry, one will have to work with advance concepts and technologies like molecular biology, nanotechnology and nano-bio-info in the future. The markets are changing already. Conventional wisdom will be of little help. Consumers will experience product which never existed earlier. Market leaders with knowledge based research and development capability will define the consumer choices. Soon, companies will design food by shaping molecules and atoms. Molecular biology, Nano-scale-biotech and Nano-bio-info will have big impacts on the food and food-processing i...