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USD 100 Billion Annual Loss - Cost of Neglect of Oilseed Sector

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Published in Malaysian Palm Oil Council Magazine, Solvent Extractors Association of India M agazine Neglect of Edible Oilseed Sector will cost USD 100 Billion every Year to Indian Economy By Vijay Sardana,   PGDM (IIM-A),M.Sc. (Food Tech.), B.Sc. (Dairy Tech.), PG Dipl. In Int’l Trade Law and ADR (ILI)   Specialized in Bio-economy Value Chains, Innovation Management and Capacity Building   Blog: “Vijay Sardana Online” Friends, you all must be shocked to see the title and you must be saying, this is no fact, I also wish if I am wrong but unfortunately, facts are more dangerous than most of us think. If so, please take out your calculator and do some calculation with me. Unfortunately, if we continue the way we are working today, by 2019 and 2024 election years, situation will be very grim. You all must be thinking, why I am linking to the election year? I will prefer to use all food security parameters as Key Performance Indicators for the ruling government

How to amend Controversial Land Acquisition (Amendment) Bill 2015?

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How to amend Controversial Land Acquisition (Amendment) Bill 2015? How to make Land Acquisition (Amendment) Bill 2015 investment and people friendly and provide transparent investment climate? Few thoughts…. Background: Let me try to answer the arguments from common man’s perspective so that it is easy to communicate with common man to build political consensus. Concern: Government is planning to take-over and sell farmers land to private parties. This is the concern express by land-owners and Civil society. After Talking to various stakeholders, I feel our approach should be f irst l et us classify projects and evaluate their national significance and then decide do we need them or not in larger national agenda.  Please note all displaced people should be engaged and offered source of income better than existing engagement. We should pose these questions to all to seek the opinion: A. Imagine a situation, i n a state fully irrigated sta