Posted on Thursday, September 20, 2012 - 03:05 am:

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Posted on Thursday, September 20, 2012 - 03:02 am:

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Tilak:

dont they charge a fee

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Posted on Thursday, September 20, 2012 - 02:50 am:

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Dada:

aaa... retail stores lekunda - business lekunda - Charity kosam cold storages - Cold Supply chain - contract farming - erpaatu chesthaaaru mari....

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Posted on Thursday, September 20, 2012 - 02:46 am:

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Tilak:

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Posted on Thursday, September 20, 2012 - 02:36 am:

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Dada:

Millions of Dollars....required for setting up cold storage units and the IT services for manning the entire operations efficiently

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Posted on Thursday, September 20, 2012 - 02:34 am:

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Dada:

FDI in retail is a good policy :-)

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Posted on Thursday, September 20, 2012 - 02:22 am:

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Tilak:

26% and 51% ..

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Tilak:

30% of the sourcing is a protection of nothing

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Posted on Thursday, September 20, 2012 - 02:15 am:

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Dada:

Rreg. the 30% local produce - common sense says that about 80% will be sourced from India. even today - a good 10-15% of the produce in Supermarkets / textile showrooms in Europe is sourced from India.

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Dada:

But still 51% is the limit.......There i a difference between 74% and 51% or 91% and 51%.

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Posted on Thursday, September 20, 2012 - 02:10 am:

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Tilak:

% is majority stake .. not minority ..

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Posted on Thursday, September 20, 2012 - 01:44 am:

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Dada:

Limiting the stake to 51% aaa?

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Dada:

Laying norms that a minimum 30% of the produce should be sourced from within India naa?

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Posted on Thursday, September 20, 2012 - 01:30 am:

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Tilak:

mindless open pandering to foreign interests with protecting and encouraging Indian interests ..

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Posted on Wednesday, September 19, 2012 - 12:59 pm:

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Posted on Wednesday, September 19, 2012 - 12:55 pm:

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Tilak:

FDI in retail is definitely not going to benefit the farmers,� said Mr R.S.Sodhi, Managing Director, Gujarat Co-operative Milk Marketing Federation Ltd, which owns the Amul brand.

Farmers get the least returns from the modern trade and the �so called efficiency� benefits only the large retailers as they constantly drive down the prices, Mr Sodhi said.

Citing the International Farm Comparison Network (IFCN) data, Mr Sodhi said milk producers in the US got only 38 per cent share of the consumer's dollar spent on milk, while the rest was earned by the processor and retailer. In the United Kingdom, the milk producers got only 36 per cent.

However, in India, the milk producer gets more than 70 per cent of the consumer's rupee on an average. Moreover, the milk producer affiliated to co-operatives get more than 80 per cent share of the consumer's rupee, Mr Sodhi said.

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Posted on Wednesday, September 19, 2012 - 06:56 am:

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While the Government claimed farmers support on FDI in retail, the country's largest dairy cooperative and food brand Amul felt such a move will hurt the interest of both producers and retailers.

New Delhi, Dec. 4:
While the Government claimed farmers support on FDI in retail, the country's largest dairy cooperative and food brand Amul felt such a move will hurt the interest of both producers and retailers.

�FDI in retail is definitely not going to benefit the farmers,� said Mr R.S.Sodhi, Managing Director, Gujarat Co-operative Milk Marketing Federation Ltd, which owns the Amul brand.

Farmers get the least returns from the modern trade and the �so called efficiency� benefits only the large retailers as they constantly drive down the prices, Mr Sodhi said.

Citing the International Farm Comparison Network (IFCN) data, Mr Sodhi said milk producers in the US got only 38 per cent share of the consumer's dollar spent on milk, while the rest was earned by the processor and retailer. In the United Kingdom, the milk producers got only 36 per cent.

However, in India, the milk producer gets more than 70 per cent of the consumer's rupee on an average. Moreover, the milk producer affiliated to co-operatives get more than 80 per cent share of the consumer's rupee, Mr Sodhi said.

In the US, the farmer's share in the consumer's price has declined from 52 per cent in 1996 to 38 per cent in 2009, while in the UK it has declined from 56 per cent in 1996 to 38 per cent in 2009. �This decline clearly demonstrates that the milk producers suffer when the share of organised retail increases,� Mr Sodhi said.

Mr Sodhi questioned whether those seeking liberal FDI policy be able to maintain the farmer's share of consumer price in India. �Will they operate at 2 per cent distributor margin and 3 per cent retail margin for milk as practised by Amul and other milk brands,� he asked. From a manufacturers' perspective, Mr Sodhi said the organised retail trade tends to be monopolistic. The access to market to brands often comes at a heavy price to be paid by the producer, Mr Sodhi said citing Amul experience with large retailers in about 40 countries like the US, Japan, Australia and Singapore where it exports dairy products.

The terms of the trade dictated by many of these players are not even heard of in India such as short credit period, huge listing fees for products, reluctance to increase prices for as high as six months among others. �The retailers will effectively kill innovation, squeeze margins and always threaten the brands with cheaper substitutes, imports or finally private label store brands,� Mr Sodhi said.

For the Government, the share of taxes would remain the same irrespective of the format of retail, while on the contrary the foreign retailers will demand more and more concessions and liberal policies to earn better. Further, the labour prices of large retailers were not employee friendly and that the Government may have to deal with huge labour issues if liberal FDI policies are implemented in retail. �If largest and most reputed Indian corporate houses like Reliance, Tata and Birla have invested in retailing in India, we do not need to look to foreign investors to invest in Indian retail,� Mr Sodhi said.

The small retailers in India over the past decade have improved their outlets, presentation, service levels and consumer orientation significantly. The modern retail and their deep pockets due to foreign investment will destabilise the retail trade, which gainfully employees a very large section of our society.

�The promised employment generation in modern retail will be at the cost of unemployed shopkeepers who form the backbone of our commerce and economy,� Mr Sodhi said.

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Posted on Tuesday, September 18, 2012 - 06:06 pm:

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Posted on Tuesday, September 18, 2012 - 06:04 pm:

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Tilak:

At that time, we had an economic reform policy. You can recollect that proposals for liberal economic policy were in our election manifesto. But the Congress adopted liberal economic policy in 1991 to rescue India from its economic and foreign exchange crisis.

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Posted on Tuesday, September 18, 2012 - 05:55 pm:

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The best is yet to come in the economic sphere, says the resolution. Indian brands need to boost their competitive edge. Reforms, it said, were needed in agriculture, manufacturing and services sectors.

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Posted on Tuesday, September 18, 2012 - 05:11 pm:

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The BJP claims that the �common man� of India began to suffer due to increased prices in agricultural and food products and decreased wages due to outside competition.

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the BJP opposed the
opening-up of the insurance industry when the Congress wanted to do so, and later the
Congress opposed the same reform when the ruling BJP wanted to open-up the
insurance industry. The BJP had a tough time privatizing a state-owned
Aluminum firm Balco as the Congress opposed this move

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The BJP on Thursday said it would strongly oppose FDI in retail, saying that it would lead to the creation of monopolies by international retail players such as Walmart.

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