The announcement of loan waivers for farmers has been cited as one of the key factors for a leading national party’s return to power in three Hindi heartland states of Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh and Rajasthan. As we write this, diverse views from numerous experts on the efficacy of farm loan waivers are already in the air.
Continue reading “Looking Beyond Farm Loan Waivers: Emerging Perspectives – Part 1”
As discussed in our previous blog, India’s Agriculture Export Policy should incentivise domestic agri producers to produce value-added agri products to fuel the country’s increasing appetite for premium products on account of a fast-rising middle class. The case of Edible Oil consumption in India is a good example.
Continue reading “Time For An Inward-looking Agriculture Export Policy”
It is a matter of great pride that our initiative with the Government of Karnataka – ‘Unified Agriculture Market’ has won the Common Wealth Association of Public Administration International Innovation Awards – CAPAM 2018 in the ‘innovation in public services management’ category at Guyana on October 24, 2018.
With every passing year, more and more Multinational Companies (MNCs) across the globe are entering the Indian market to sell value-added agri products that fetch far higher prices than what their India-sourced raw commodities fetch. For e.g. a popular brand’s 250 gms. packet of Cornflakes, with minimal fortification, sells at a 3-4 times higher price than raw cornflakes. The same goes for Imported Fruits like Apples, Oranges and Grapes that command a premium of 50-100% over the ones produced in India.
Continue reading “Agriculture Export Policy: Looking Within”
In our earlier blog post, we saw how NeML’s Tech Team did a stupendous job in migrating 50 Applications with over 100 Servers to AWS Cloud in 60 hours to become India’s first company in the BFSI segment to migrate 100% of its applications from Data Centre to the Cloud!
Here’s what Ravindra Shevade, our COO & CTO had to say about it:
