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Charcha Mein: Kisan Samman Nidhi Yojana | 23/02/2019

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Vijay Sardana, Agriculture Market Expert On issue of Fortification

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Budget 2019-20 gives USD 63 Billion Consumption & Investment Boost to Indian Economy

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Rs. 4.5 Lakhs Crore (USD 63 Billion) Consumption Boost for FMCG and Capital Goods, GST collection will also get a boost By: Vijay Sardana The interim budget is dominated by provisions for the rural farm sector and the working-class population, it means a major boost to a consumption economy. If everything goes as per plan, Indian economy will get additional Rs. 310 crores cashflow every day due to budget provisions only in consumer goods, agri-inputs and services industries. This budget will support consumption sector by increasing the disposable income in the hands of the middle and lower middle class because of the income support schemes, interest subvention and tax exemptions and this should domestic economic output, capacity utilization of factories and employment generation. The increased cash in the system because of the government income augmenting measures could have an inflationary impact which may boost farmers income which could, however, be restricted

Why some Non-State Actors (NGOs) are keen to make India Food Insecure?

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Agriculture Policy Discussion Note Why some Non-state Actors (NGOs) are keen to make India Food Insecure? (Other developing countries may also be facing the similar situation) By: Vijay Sardana Do you know , the popular OTC medicine Asprine is 38 times more toxic than urea. Salt is 2.5 times more toxic than urea. Vitamin-D which promoted in fortified foods by FSSAI is more toxic than many pesticides, urea and many medicines. NGOs, Courts and policymakers responsible for the delay in adoption agriculture technologies by farmers must provide our plan for food security of India. India needs the addition of 20 million tons of food to meet the minimum nutrition requirement for a growing population. NGOs should Food Security Plan of India: I request NGOs to please submit the detailed food security plans to feed India’s poor and unfed population. If they do not submit their plans they should be asked to keep off from the vital food security matters. Fail

How to retain market share & market capitalization?

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Corporate Governance in Corporate World  How to retain market share & market capitalization in a highly-competitive hyper-connected world? By: Vijay Sardana Everyday newspapers are flooded with corporate stories of mis-management and stock market crashing for some reason or the other. At the same time many companies are rock solid and their market capitalization is going up and sales is also going up.  The basic question is: Why some promoters and top managers are involved in manipulations and mismanagement of their own company and ultimately ruin their own goodwill with their own organisation?  Why this happens? As an independent director and member of various policy-making bodies both in private as well as public sector, author do get a chance to interact with many business leaders and investors on a daily basis and what I observed is that issues are most common but there is resistance in accepting the facts that things are going out of control due to severa

Global Review on Hunger & Malnutrition and Israel Technology Partnerships

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Lok Sabha TV - Global Review (Episode No. 42) Global Nutritional Challenge and India-Israel Relations Must watch with some key data and solutions to address the issues. Anchor: Dr. Sachin Chaturvedi with Mr. Vijay Sardana and Mr. Dan Alluf

'Farmers Day' should be changed to “Farmers’ Martyrs Day”

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So far more than 300,000 farmers committed suicide  due to financial hardships as per official records, now Government of India does not even publish this data (who knows it can be too scary)?  ' Farmers Day ' should be changed to  ' Farmers’ Martyrs Day ' By: Vijay Sardana The current political debate in India is who is friendlier to the farmers and which political system benefited the farmers most through policies. The fact is today, farmers in India are exploited by others due to outdated policies and rules which are depriving farmers of their legitimate rights in the money spend by consumers. Political system is not willing to clean the system because political funding comes from these policies which encourage extortion of the farmers. Please answer my questions: 1.    Why 50% of all APMC mandis should not be reserved for the farmers cooperatives and farmers associations, when they are producer of the crop? 2.    Why farmer markets are not allocate