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Why Food Park Approach in India needs serious relook? Lately, have you heard anything about Agri-export Zones, Food Parks, Special Economic Zones and something similar in newspapers. What happened to them? Why they all vanished? This must be studied. Now you hear Mega Food Parks, but nothing about food parks for which Rs. 4 crores were given from public taxes. Now, Mega Food Parks are in discussion with Rs. 50 Crores subsdiy fro tax payers money. Will they exist? Time will tell. Keep close watch on developments.  Concern is now in open: In order to make mega food parks a success, now government is forcing all new investments in Food processing must come in mega food parks in case promoter want subsidy from MFPI.  in my view, this is a wrong approach this will hurt effciency of Indian food industry and imports will increase.  This condition clearly shows that investors are not keen to go to food parks for various reasons. What is more important survival of badly located

 Rates lower than MSP, farmers hit hard & the way forward

Transparent derivatives mechanism proposed to arrest onion price volatility Futures trading with a price band to give signals or forward trading with delivery have been suggested Rajesh Bhayani | Mumbai October 13, 2017 Last Updated at 00:49 IST With onion price volatility every year, experts suggest futures trading with an action plan based on a price band and forward trading with delivery-based settlement.  At times, farmers throw away their onion produce due to excess supply making the cost of taking this to the wholesale market higher than the prevailing price. It happened in Madhya Pradesh last year. On the other hand, consumers sometimes suffer due to soaring prices, due to supply shortage or trader cartelisation. Both situations occur frequently. Annual production is 19-20 million tonnes, concentrated in a few states; the consuming states are many. Several sowing cycles and intermittent gaps between sowing and harvesting usually create ripples and prices go up

After WTO ruling, Doubling farmers’ income agenda under threat  Indian Poultry and allied Industries heading for Shake-up Follow on twitter : @vijaysardana In 2014, Global Poultry export trade was about USD 28.33 billion and in 2016 it came down to USD 23.68 billion. This is putting pressure on the governments of major poultry producing countries to open new markets for them. Brazil and US are two major suppliers to the world. India is one of the largest consumers' market in the world. Global players are looking at India with lot of excitement. Global Poultry industry is also waiting in wings to enter Indian market. Recent WTO ruling will faciliate the entry. Due to various regulatory restrictions India was insulated from global competition, but now this will change soon. In 2015, India had lost a case at the World Trade Organisation when the trade body ruled that India’s ban on import of poultry meat, eggs and live pigs from the world market suppliers like US was