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Sales fall as people in metros start ditching cars -Pankaj Doval

-The Times of India NEW DELHI: Traffic jams, parking problems, app-based cabs, online shopping and fast-spreading metro networks have resulted in car sales starting to fall in big cities, something many hoped for but few expected to become a reality. City-specific numbers accessed by TOI from industry sources show car sales dropped 20 per cent in Mumbai in 2017-18—97,274 cars sold during the year versus 1.22 lakh in the previous year. Bangalore,...

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How TV ratings are 'fixed' -Cherry Agarwal

-Newslaundry.com Small sample size, ‘panel tampering’ and conflicting interests are just some of the problems that plague TV viewership measurement in India. Hansa Research Private Limited, a Mumbai-based global market research company, on April 8 registered a complaint at Gwalior's Madhav Ganj police station following a leak of Broadcast Audience Research Council-related information by one of Hansa Research’s employees. The accused were booked under Sections 420 (cheating), 406 (criminal breach of trust) and...

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Maharashtra: MahaFPC to venture into input trade of fertilisers -Parthasarathi Biswas

-The Indian Express To rope in 50 FPCs for business from this kharif season Pune: MahaFPC, the apex body of farmer producer companies (FPCs) in the state, has decided to try its hands at the business of input management, mainly fertilisers, this year. Yogesh Thorat, managing director of MahaFPC said they will be targeting around 50 FPCs to get into the business, starting the kharif season. Since the start of the FPC movement,...

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Do agri bodies give farmers a boost? -Devesh Roy & Vinay K Sonkar

-The Hindu Business Line A study of Farmer Producer Organisations in Bihar show mixed results — some successes but several challenges too The government has this lofty goal of doubling farmers’ income by 2022. Among the different instruments to achieve this goal, promotion of new and scaling up of existing Farmer Producer Organisations (FPOs) have been given focus. Given the extremely small landholdings, FPOs, through collectivisation, which leads to economies of scale, are...

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19 varieties of rice in 10 acres, NGO shows the way -Abha Goradia

-The Times of India NAGPUR: Reviving the debate once again over local indigenous variety versus the ones promoted by agriculture universities, an NGO Gramin Yuva Pragatik Mandal (GYPM) took up the challenge to prove that local indigenous seeds were more effective and scripted a success story. In the process, the NGO not just proved its claim right but also produced 19 traditional varieties of rice on a 10-acre plot within a...

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