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5th International Convention  of  Commodity Participants Association of India Click on the image to read the highlights

- Mission Mustard -  Reach 10 Million Tons Production in 2 Years The growing population will need more food from shrinking landmass and natural resources. We have to plan for growing demand very carefully. There will be competing demands from other crops as well. The area under mustard crop is fluctuating depending upon weather and price.  The yield is also fluctuating widely due to various factors. The positive sign is mustard is expanding to new areas but concern is yield is low. This must be addressed.  The yield is directly correlated to appropriate technology transfer and package of practices adopted by the farmers supported by price. Haryana and Rajasthan are doing better in mustard crop than other regions.  The ray of hope is, we have high yielding districts in every state as given below. Why we cannot replicate these models in other districts? Low yielding districts need serious attention, without changing any major...

Nutrition is the new Chess Game - Sponsored by Vitamin Cartel Implications of ' Mandatory Fortification ' & ' Mandatory Packaging ' of Edible Oil FSSAI should design "National Food Fortification Policy" - Implementation to Start with Junk Food and Beverages First - Disclaimer: Views are personal. Mandatory Fortification is the new Chess Game  in Trade politics: There is no doubt that we have serious problem on nutrition in the country. There is serious deficiency of micro-nutrients among various vulnerable sections.  In some pockets of India, there are serious issues with human malnutrition and food security. We must investigate why this is happening and how to address them in most cost effective way without hurting the food security, without escalating the cost of food and without creating unemployment and without compromising farmers interest as well, without coming under pressure of large commercial interests trying to i...

LOC Management Lessons from Assembly Elections 2017 By:  Vijay Sardana Author did similar exercises after Delhi election and Bihar Elections and expressed the reasons for defeat of BJP in Delhi and Bihar. There was very good response from the readers. Let me make another attempt to understand 2017 assembly elections because these elections will change the course of political discourse forever. The same reasons were visible for good, not so good and bad performance of BJP in these elections in different states. Dominant factor influenced the results in Assembly elections 2017 were: Ø Leadership:  Leadership is visible side of the campaign Ø Organization : Organization is hidden frame holding the campaign and expands to new areas Ø Communication: Communication helps as binding force between organization and community In earlier elections, there were many more factors, which you may see from my blogs: For Delhi Analysis , you may click here: Ø ...