Comments on: Reliance’s Rural Business Hubs

By: रिलायंस के ग्रामीण कारोबार केन्द्र « भारत का विकास - अतनु डे

रिलायंस के ग्रामीण कारोबार केन्द्र « भारत का विकास - अतनु डे — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 04:41:23 +0000

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By: Amit

Amit — Sun, 15 Jun 2008 15:36:31 +0000

Re: agriculture, what’s needed is for Indian farmers to not go the monoculture way and instead, shift to more sustainable and less polluting means of producing food that revitalize and strengthen local economies. Basically, not a repeat of what the documentary “King Corn” (http://www.kingcorn.net/) showed – the negative effects of industrial agriculture (vis-a-vis corn) which are a result of policies set in the 70s. It took 30 years for the negative results of those policies to manifest themselves to the extent that they cannot be ignored. I hope India doesn’t repeat that mistake. If Reliance can help in achieving that goal, more power to it. If Mukesh Ambani has a vision similar to outlined in the link below, then props to him.

http://www.sarep.ucdavis.edu/Concept.htm
http://www.rodaleinstitute.org/

By: tarang_72

tarang_72 — Sun, 15 Jun 2008 13:07:55 +0000

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/15/business/worldbusiness/15ambani.html?_r=1&hp=&adxnnl=1&oref=slogin&adxnnlx=1213535165-T4xzuoZn2TfXsUwXi6XB1w

Nice article about Mukesh Ambani in NYTimes. I liked his idea of supporting artisans in rural area by providing them information on what to produce, perform quality control and get them better value for their produce. Atleast, this will remove current intermediaries (i hate to use words like dalals) who does not provide any value addition and should not exist in first place.

By: AGWorld

AGWorld — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 04:49:20 +0000

But.. but…but won’t these capitalist mafiosi ruin our sylvan villages!

I mean, all these things will allow farmers to earn more, sell directly to customers and disintermediate the maay-baap sarkar. We cannot allow that to happen!

The sarkar must rule their destiny into perpetuity… and work hard to keep them in the villages.

\end of morning sarcasm