Archive for July 24th, 2008
Creating a company for Indian farmers
Image via Wikipedia livemint.com The reason why many of the government’s well-intended measures fail is not far to seek. The actual problem that farmers face today is low incomes due to the absence of post-harvest infrastructure, low value addition and absence of organized marketing processes. The solution, in fact, lies in ensuring that farmers get [...]
The Illogic of Farm Subsidies, and Other Agricultural Truths
Insightful interview with Dan Sumner, ag economist, in keeping with the latest Doha round, and the moves by the India/Brazil-led G20 to have the EU, U.S. eliminate a few of these farm subsidies Freakonomics – New York Times Blog Q: Are there any good arguments that support farm subsidies? If so, to what extent and [...]
Looking for a fill – Wine in India
Image via Wikipedia business standard In a sense, the Indian Premier League, whose widespread impact on cricket is still being assessed, also marked a dramatic “coming out” of wine when it was served to spectators at the tournament’s inaugural match in Bangalore on April 18. That was just two months after United Spirits Ltd, or [...]
Reliance Industries Q1 net at Rs 4,110 crore
rediff.com Reliance Industries Ltd [Get Quote] on Thursday recorded 13 per cent rise in net profit at Rs 4,110 crore (Rs 41.10 billion) in the first quarter of the current fiscal as against the corresponding quarter of the previous fiscal. Reliance Industries’ turnover increased 38 per cent to Rs 43,050 crore (Rs 430.50 billion) for [...]
Mexico’s Homex in partnership with India’s Daksh
Image via Wikipedia If this new venture can figure out how to build a modular home for price points like $5000 and $10000 they have a winner. There needs to be a Tata-Nano like rethink to build cheap housing for the urban poor in India and Latin America. Reuters Homex said April-June net profit was [...]
From Mexico to India, the Wine Way
The New York Sun “My first introduction to Indian culture was ‘In Light of India’ by Octavio Paz,” Mr. Barrera said, referring to the book-length rumination about India by the Mexican writer and poet, who was his country’s ambassador to India between 1962 and 1968. “He deduced that moles” — the traditional Mexican sauces that [...]
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