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Watch - Future of Indian Dairy Industry in 2025 (in 3 Parts)

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Future of Indian Dairy Industry in 2025 (i n 3 Part) Deliberations at:  Punjab Dairy Farmers Association (PDFA) Ludhiana (Listen to the deliberations, Video quality needs improvement) Part -1: Click here:  https://youtu.be/WaVsF3LeFPo Part-2:   Click here: https://youtu.be/K03keqH264E Part-3: Click here:  https://youtu.be/-Ayfwcsp9io

Watch - All you need to know about the importance of UP by-elections

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All you need to know about the importance of UP By-elections For my views, click here: https://youtu.be/zySb3QITGqA?t=10m40s

Amazing Journey - 300000+ Readership from 150+ Countries & Growing

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300000+ Readership from 150+ Countries  Source : Google Blog Stats 300000+ Readership from 150+ Countries are the numbers those who read my blogs by direct access to this blog site. There are many times more readers those who read my blogs on other social media sites on which these blogs were shared by my readers and well-wishers and published in various magazines. When I started I never though I will be able to connect with so many people from world-over. Thank you so  much for encouraging me to write my views on issues of public interest and public policy with special reference to food security and agriculture, political economy and law, trade policy and employment and related issues. Source : Google Blog Stats Till date, I have completed about 370 articles on the blog and many more in other magazines, newspapers and trade journals. This journey was amazing and I will continue to write and I hope you all will encourage me by sending your feedback.

Special Edition - Watch - Why Farmers are on Streets?

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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

Part 1: Analysis of the Proposed Pesticide Management Bill 2017

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Part 1:   Analysis of Pesticide Management Bill 2017 By:  Vijay Sardana Techno-legal Expert and Advocate, Delhi High Court Disclaimer:  Views are personal and also open to discuss the same on any forum. You may or may not agree with me, on every point you will endorse that existing Pesticide management administration in the country is totally ineffective because farmers are suffering due to spurious pesticides and farmers are deprived of cheaper options by not permitting more than 100+ off-patent products "Make in India". Who agenda the department is serving, is a big question mark? Why no one is keen to change the bad system. Why we are not keen to learn from bad practices flourishing under existing law? To start with there must be a discussion paper on what problems are faced in the enforcement of existing law? Why we need a new law? There must be stakeholder consultation. It seems this is law is designed by the inspectors, for the benefit of inspectors. This la