Middlemen

Flagship schemes for poor are falling apart. Will Cong learn?

In most cases, benefits are not reaching the intended beneficiaries and are being pocketed by the middle men.

No country for middlemen: India targets agents in food chain as inflation bites

Modi's food and finance ministers are now pushing states to let fruit and vegetable farmers sell to anyone they want, ending a practice that governs more than 7,000 wholesale markets.<br />

The upside of Land Bill: Curbing insider trading

The Land Acquisition should be seen as the first attempt to correct the information asymmetry that works against farmers interests when land use is changed.

Farmer empowerment: Is Amul model better than retail FDI?

A comparison of both the models makes it clear that the element of farmer empowerment is missing in corporate contract farming, while the Amul model is only about that.