POLITICS WITH PULSES-  FARMERS LIVES AT STAKE http://www.business-standard.com/article/markets/centre-allows-import-of-pulses-despite-farmers-sitting-on-huge-stocks-118052100261_1.html Please read the article ( shared ink)     and internalize for yourself, how your own family, brothers, sisters, uncles from our farming community is suffering due to inconsistent policies, indiscriminate import of Agri produce etc resulting into huge filing of stocks at farmers level, agencies level , resulting into market glut and no signs of any recovery in near future. What a pathetic situation.    Forget for a while that you are a software engineer, high profile finance consultant etc, walk into the chapels of a farmer and understand how he is being victimized due to our Government’s urban middle class influenced policies. Farmer’s issues: In last two years I had written many blogs, reached policy makers including PMO, NITI Aayog, and ministers and presented...

NAFED MSP PROCUREMENT – FACTS PUBLIC SHOULD KNOW NAFED MSP Procurement: NAFED, an independent public sector organization is entrusted with the responsibility of supporting various states through market intervention program of buying produce directly from farmers    with minimum support price (MSP) or MSP plush state declared addl bonus and store in the godowns.   NAFED engaged StarAgri as their warehouse partners and local procurement is entrusted to APMCs and other local channels through respective State Markfeds or NeML. Certification of crop extent, giving sale permits to farmers etc is handled by Markfeds in coordination with revenue and agriculture departments. Genuine farmers had night mare crossing these hurdles, where as traders and political personalities under the cover of farmer, could reach NAFED godowns directly bypassing the systems and controls. Farmers’ Situation: In case of poor farmers, they have to make produce   lots in market...