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Proposals for Agriculture Policy Reforms to address Farmers’ Distress

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Proposals for Agriculture Policy Reforms to address Farmers’ Distress By: Vijay Sardana S. No. Action Required Justification 1.        ·       Remove all types of licensing conditions from APMC Act all over India. This will improve farmers income substantially. ·       Allocate at least 25% shops in every mandi (market yards) for FPOs and farmers. ·       Ask all municipalities to allocate space for a farmers market in every colony so that farmer and consumers so that direct transactions can happen. This will reduce police intervention and corruption by local inspectors. ·   Example, Delhi itself is about Rs. 1,40,000 Crores food market. About 500 to 600 to 1000 people control the whole market including fruits, vegetables, poultry, fish, food grains and pulses, species and edible oils, etc. What is the tax collection? What are farmers getting from consumers paid amount? How much money is paid by the consumers? Imagine the situation c

Why Investors and Policy Makers not exploring this assured goldmine?

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Why Investors & Policy Makers not exploring this assured Goldmine? "Traditional Foods of India" By:  Vijay Sardana Please study this map carefully, the goldmines are all over the country. Market size of these products within India is Rs. 1300 million (Rs. 130 crore) plus global Market. Historically, India was attacked and raided by outsiders because of our tasty foods due to species and flavours. All traders came to India in search of 'Taste of India' and later they became greedy and started controlling Indian territories. One of the biggest criticism of modern food industry is we are promoting junk foods and food which are not balanced in nutrition. These processed foods are excessively loaded with carbohydrate, oils, sugar or salt. Very rarely you will find a food which is nutritionally balanced. To make it balanced food you should buy more food or food items to mix with it and this leads to cost escalation and cost of nutrition goes up. Exerc

Presentation : Can Proposed formula for MSP for Crops solve farmers crisis?

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Can Proposed formula for MSP for Crops solve farmers' crisis? Theme Presentation at Valedictory Session at National Cost Convention'2018. Important Disclaimer:  All data used in presentation are approved by the PMO, Ministers and Policy Makers of the Government of India. It means they all are responsible for the fate of farmers in India, because they have not objected to these defective and exploitative calculations, in fact they all endorsed it.  Always say " Thank you" to the farmers when you sit for your next meal. They are responsible for our existence, not the government or anyone else.   What society gave them in return. The poverty, distress and suffering. If government policies were sensible, why farmers are suffering so much. This itself is a basic question. No amount of claims, statements and assurance makes any sense because the fact is farmers are suffering and as society we have just exploited them for our benefit. Facts are