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There is a vast mechanism in the country tocheck any volatility or abnormal rise in prices of essentialcommodities. Despite expending millions and billions of rupees to run theprice controls machinery at the Central and States level,this mechanismhas been rendered ineffective and counter productive. The present surge inprices of essential commodities and vegetables of common use have gone out ofhand. The government machinery has lost its effectiveness to bring the situationunder control.The Government has made an arrangement tomonitor daily and weekly prices of17essential commodities all across the country. Its main purpose isto check demand andsupply situation and find balance if there is any problem in the country. Thegovernment undertakes short term measures like import and export to controlaugment supplies, sothat common man issaved from price rise. There is a special cellin the economic division of finance ministry for this purpose. A group ofministers hasbeen setup to take necessary action on situation of price rise and to suggest measures.The group recently took decision to release additional quotas ofWheat and Rice to statesand extent ban onexport ofPulses .

It is worth mentioning that on the recommendation of this Group of Ministers, thegovernment of India on 7th Sept., 2010 had allotted 25 lack tones extra food grains tostates. Off takes by the state governments from this allotted quantity was only six percentby 9th Nov., 2010. This implies that states have enough food grain for BPL families. Acommittee of secretaries under the chairmanship of cabinet secretary, the strongestcommittee on prices is also there, to save common man from abnormal price rise. Manytimes has been noticed that the government machinery awakes only when the situation hadgone out of control. Sugar market's volatility and recent surge of Onion prices are freshexamples of lack of efficiency of the present mechanism for price monitoring and control.

The issue of price rise has discussed nine times in the Parliament since 2004, three times in2006. The Reserve Bank of India on its part has been under taken steps to control moneysupply to curve inflationary pressure. The Central Government advise the StateGovernments to take effective action to check hoardings and black marketing underEssential Commodities Act 1955 and Prevention of Black Marketing Act 1988. There isalways a crisis on the price front, some times commodity 'A' troubles the common man,another times commodity 'B' or 'C' . People are loosing faith in the system. It isvisible thatneither short term, nor long term measures are working to control the price rise,unscrupulous hoarders and profiteers are exploiting the situation. Many times haveseen that the hoarders creates artificial crisis inthe market. Common men and poor farmproducers are real looser.The situation will improve only if government makes effective use of its power to reducethe gap between the prices at which farmers sell their produces and the prices at whichthe consumer buy the products at retail shops. Ifthe government has will-power,can find the way surely.


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KISAN KI AWAAZNational Magazine of Farmers' VoiceCONTENTS

Working Group Report on Agriculture Production SubmitFood mismanagement - between storage and supply* Prof. J. GeorgeClimate Change -Some Facts Most Ignored* Professor Arun Deep AhluwaliaHike Food Prices To Boost GM Crop Approval* Rady Ananda~ ~ 1 S W l : ;;m'! %* ~~T~"The Role of peoples Diplomacy in Strengthening'1m - ~

In Defence of the Commons: Dr. Binayak Sen's* Dr. Vandana ShivaViruses and Virus Nucleic Acid* Prof. Joe CumminsWikileaks cable reveals U.S. conspired to retaliate* Mike AdamsMalaysia's GM Aedes mosquito planned release:Pesticides lobby's coup

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Wo rk in g G roup on A gricu lture P rod uctio n Subm its R ep ort toP rim e M in ister : C alls fo r C heap er F arm L oan s and H igh er M SP

The Working Group on AgricultureProduction (WGAP) has called forfarm loans at not more than 4% perannum interest and MSP to be fixed at 50% higherprice over the actual cost of cultivation. The Groupsubmitted its report to the Prime Minister here today.The Group headed by Haryana Chief Minister

Shri Bhupinder Singh Hooda was constituted by theCore Group of Central Ministers and State ChiefMinisters on Prices of Essential Commodities (CoreGroup) in its meeting held on April 8, 2010 under theChairmanship of the Prime Minister. The othermembers of the Group are Chief Ministers of Bihar,Punjab and West Bengal.The Working Group has made more than 150specific recommendations. These recommendationsorganised in 9 themes will be discussed in the Second

Meeting of the Core Group being convened on 28thDecember, 2010.Significant recommendations of the WorkingGroup are summarised below (some

recommendations have already been implementedduring the course ofthe current year):s Bridge the horizontal and vertical gaps inyield by ascertaining these through specific studiesand address them through appropriate interventionslike timely sowing, balanced use of fertilizers and soilameliorants, improving water use efficiency etc.s Expansion of area under boro (winter) riceby increasing cropping intensity especially in thestates of Assam, Bihar, Jharkhand, Orissa, and WestBengal. (Extending Green Revolution to EasternIndia programme launched to address this)s Assam should also be included m theExtending Green Revolution to Eastern Indiaprogramme. (Included)

s As electric power is u nlikely to be available tothe extent required, it is necessary to assist farmerspartly in meeting higher cost of diesel pumping setsfor lifting water in eastern states. A scheme on thelines of Diesel Subsidy Scheme of Bihar should belaunched in other States also.s Undertake an ambitious time boundprogramme of ground water use through bore-wells, shallow wells and lift irrigation schemes ineastern India.s Additional investments are required tomaintain canals and to fund research onconjunctive use of brackish water with canalwater.s Develop and upscale integrated farmingsystems including crops, horticulture, livestock etc. togenerate both on-farm and off-farm employment forsmall and marginal farmers.s Include short duration summer mung-beanvarieties under zero tillage in areas under irrigatedcereal production systems of the country, andReintroduce pulses in sugarcaneproductionsystems areas. In eastern India, relaycropping of zero till planting of winter legumes(lentil, chickpea etc) should be focussed in 'rice-fallows'.s Promote production of hybrid seedaggressively and provide incentives to PrivateSector.s Improve seed replacement rate of oilseedcrops. Popularise Cyto-plasmic Male Sterility (CPM)based hybrids as they promise substantial productivityenhancement. Superior sunflower hybrids should bedeveloped and promoted in northern India. In castor,special focus is required for the development ofhybrids and varieties resistant to abiotic stresses suchas drought and salinity.

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s State Seed Corporations should either bereformed/re-organized to make them vibrantorganisations or should be closed to allowdevelopment of alternative mechanisms.s Fertiliser companies should produce rightkind of mixtures of nutrients to suit the specificrequirements of soils in all agro-climatic zones.Target to bring at least 10% area under bio-fertiliserapplication. Encourage use of liquidfertilisers.s There is need to create appropriatepesticide/ bio-pesticide quality control set up and toprovide deterrent punishment for the sale of spuriouspesticides.s New irrigation technologies like furrowirrigation, mulching, drip and sprinkler irrigation etc.need to be promoted as a national priority. Microirrigation systems (i.e. drip and sprinkler) must bepromoted as a matter of priority in both canalcommand and rainfed areas. In situ waterconservation is the best solution for stability andsustainability of agriculture, and improving yields ofcrops in the rainfed areas.s Institutional development across States is apriority area for equitable flow of credit. Creditshould be made available at not more than 4% perannum rate ofinterest.s Farm mechanisation is not only necessary forincreasing productivity, but has become essential inview of emerging labour shortage and needsconsiderable support from Government.ATechnology Mission on Farm Mechanisationshould be started.s Encourage establishment of agri-businesscentres by Self Help Groups to purchase, maintainand provide farm machinery to farmers under customhiring.s All types of tools, implements, machineryand equipment should be allowed to be freelyimported without any import duty.s States may consider taking up segregation offeeders for dedicated availability of power to

agriculture sector and making power available in un-served areas especially in eastern India.s Much needed emphasis to encourage use ofsolar, biomass and wind power in agriculture isrequired. It will be highly desirable to initiate aNational programme on Harnessing Bio-energy inAgriculture.s A time bound programme to fill up existingvacancies in all KVKs and Extension Directoratesshould be prepared and implemented.s Train and Develop Technology Agentsthrough vocational training at State AgriculturalUniversities for establishment ofAgri-Clinics.s It is necessary to bring in private sectorinvestments for developing marketinginfrastructure to give better choices to farmers andfor developing more efficient supply chain for betterhandling of agriculture produce.s System of Spot Electronic Trading, one ofthe biggest institutional reforms in agriculturemarketing system, needs to be institutionalised.s Funds available under the Scheme 'GraminBhandaran Yojana' should be fully utilised to createa network of rural godowns in the country.s Methodology of calculating costs ofcultivation of Commission for Agriculture Cost andPrices (CACP) must be reviewed in the context ofneed to provide economic and remunerative prices tothe farmers. The Working Group supportsacceptance of the National Commission on Farmers'report suggesting 50% higher price over the actualcost of cultivation or adoption of Bureau ofIndustrialCost and Prices (BICP) formula used for estimatingindustrial costs.s Minimum Support Price (MSP) for vegetables,especially Potato, Onion and Garlic, should also befixed byGOI.s Market for agricultural produce must beimmediately freed of all sorts of restrictions onmovement, trading, stocking, finance, exports etc.No monopoly, including that of APMCs or



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corporate licensees, should be allowed.s Agriculture land ceiling for corporatescould be fixed at 25 times the ceiling for individualfarmers.s Proper policy should be put in place for landlease and contract farming. Guidelines need to bechalked out for contract farming/leasing, to ensurethat the rights of both land owner and tenant aresafeguarded.s Indian companies can be encouraged tobuy lands in foreign countries for producing pulsesand oilseeds under long term supply contracts toIndian canalising agencies.s A consolidation exercise should be taken upby the Planning Commission to convert existingCSSs into a few focussed schemes.s From the Twelfth Plan, it will be advisable toextend the NFSM to cover all the districts of wheatproducing States. Crops such as maize and coarsecereals (sorghum and bajra) should be included inNFSM.s Entire statistical system needs to berevamped to cover all crops and to increase accuracyof data collection and elimination of higher or lowerbias.s A national system of collecting andmonitoring identified weather parameters shouldbe developed and put in place using RKVY and otherfunds. Market information along with dailyweather conditions should be provided to thefarmers using modern ICT tools and techniques(SMS, Panchayat e-services, FM radio, AIR, TV etc.).s The States may consider setting up separateUniversities of Veterinary and Animal Sciences.Union Government should also set up a LivestockMission.s Efforts to promote use of plastics inagricultural operations should be encouraged.s A coordination mechanism for Ministries ofAgriculture, Rural Development, Food and Public

Distribution, Irrigation, Fertilisers and Power in theCentral/State Government is urgently needed. AScientific Advisory Council on Agriculture shouldbe created under the Chairmanship of Prime Minister.s States may consider bringing all agricultureand allied sector related production programmesunder the Agriculture Production Commissioner,for coordinating with other allied departments.s A comprehensive policy for insurancecoverage of all important food crops and live stockneeds to be put in place on priority and the sameshould be implemented with additional fundingsupport from the Centre, with village as a unit insteadof the Block.s Norms of Calamity Relief Fund (CRF)should be revised and the compensation for the lossof crops due to natural calamities likeflood/drought/frost should be enhanced to at least Rs.25,000 per hectare.s Amassive effort for building modern silos toarrest post harvest losses of foodgrains isneeded at thenational level through both public and private sectorinterventions as a national priority.s In addition to use of location-specifictechnology, suitable policy initiatives in terms ofinsurance, preferential credit, strengtheninginfrastructure and extension services are also neededfor climate proofing rain fed agriculture.s A Second Green Revolution focusing on theRainfed areas is possible only through atechnological breakthrough in the use of bio-technology to strengthen conventional breedingmethodology by evolving plant varieties resistant topest and diseases, tolerant to adverse weatherconditions, better nutritional value and enhanceddurability of product.s A National Mission for Development ofRainfed Agriculture should be established withdefined outcomes and convergence with lineMinistries/ Departments and State Governments.

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F oo d m ism a n a g em e n t - b e tw e e n s to r a g e a n d su p p ly* Prof. J. GeorgeIs time to set a course for market to fosterexpectations of the 'common man' in place ofextracting and squeezing every bit of intangibleasset in matters concerning food security. During theseven-eight weeks after writing my thoughts(published alongside), issues of food securitylegislation have been further pushed back into fiscal2011-12. In no uncertain terms the detractors of thebill have been leveraging on the proposed changedname from National Food Security Bill to NationalFood Entitlements Bill 2010. Besides, the proposedsetting up of autonomous National Food Commissionand State Food Commission to oversee/monitorimplementation, enforcement and grievance redressalis not only short circuiting enabling provisions butmakes a travesty ofthe constitutional mandate on sub-national governance aswell as directive principles.

This has happened despite the 23 October 2010National Advisory Council (NAC) recommendations.These are being vetted by an expert task force headedby the Chairman of the PMs Economic AdvisoryCouncil (EAC) since our revered Prime Ministerwould like them to carry out a 'due diligence'ostensibly onprudent fiscal (subsidy) discipline.A much better food entitlement legislation wouldhave come about if we had concentrated on thedecision making protocol on grain storage and supply(OSS) schedules that is mismanaged by theentitlement driven managers supported by the publicexchequer. The current so-called burgeoning foodsubsidy needs to be looked at in a much moredisaggregated and fragmentary manner to understandthe real import of entitlement and efficiency in thesystem.In sum these dilatory and circular motions are primeexamples of impediment tactics. This also gives out astrong signal that the space and proclivities for candiddiscussions and actions as demonstrated with theemployment guarantee scheme have drasticallyshrunk to concentrate on the five wise sentient beingsconstituting any expert committee.

NDALegacyThe current food imbroglio is a NDA legacy. Thismust be underscored to work out a sustainablesolution. The dichotomy between BPL-APL duringthe Ninth Plan (1997-2002); devising targeted publicdistribution system (TPDS) without any appropriateoperating protocol; nullifying the most crucial section3 of the Essential Commodities Act 1955 during theTenth Plan (2002-07) and fortifying market extractingpower through a Model Act: Agricultural ProduceMarketing (Development & Regulation) Act 2003 inplace of the Agricultural Produce Market Committee(APMC) Act are three significantly damagingbequests being cherished and nurtured by UPA underthe national food security bill rubric. For illustration,the foundation laid to completely overhaul theWarehousing Corporation Act 1962 was successfullyconcluded in the form of the Warehousing(Development & Regulation) Act 2007 duringSeptember 2007.The damaging consequences ofECA's section 3 werefelt in the wheat import saga in the Tenth Plan period.UPA cannot and should not forget the September 2006Nainital conclave in these circumstances. We mustpainfully highlight that NDA refrain of reforms inagriculture sector had been "control over agriculturalmarkets by the State has to be eased to facilitategreater participation of the private sector, particularlyto engender massive investments required for thedevelopment of marketing infrastructure andsupporting services."Unfortunately in this sordid food insecurity drama theadjudicative, price stabilising properties andaddressing structural deficiencies using ECA(specifically sub-clause (v) and (xi) of clause (a)section 2, and generally section 3) have been eitherforgotten or nullified by various executive orders. ThePDS control order 200 1,for instance, is a rehash of theold regime of universal PDS with a tighter control onrelease of allocated food grains. Interestingly nooperating protocol has been designed ab initio to



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uphold TPDS. Hence it is no surprise that the HighLevel Committee (HLC) on long term grain policy in2001 pointing towards the high proportion of oldgrain stocks in the possession of the central poolmanagement strongly recommended correctivemeasures to retire these stocks. The Supreme Court intheir recent hearings has not been able to address thiscritical question of mismanagement. The judgmentalsignificance comes about since some estimates in2000 reported that about half the FCI stocks were atleast 2 years old, 30per cent were 2-3 years old.The central vigilance committee on publicdistribution system, as a consequence, wasconstituted by the Supreme Court in 2006. Thereforeitwas grossly unfair on the part of our PM to overlookthis legacy and contemporary history of foodmanagement.

The factual position to be noted here is that thesenumbers explicitly exclude those poor people in the(APL) above poverty line that have felt food insecuredue to the persistent headline food inflation in thedouble digits. Neither NAC nor the Prime Minister orEGOM seems to recall their promise on this scoremade in February 2010 and constitution of acommittee that included chief ministers of the statesas well.However, a simple number crunching done in theTable below show that various BPL estimates basedon two proximate assumptions about the averagefamily size (5 & 6) indicate futility of numbercrunching specifically on BPL.The supplemental food requirement exclusively forBPL range from 13.7 million tonnes (current Planpanel scenario indicated as the underlined second

Number of Poor Annual Staple Food required @ 2009-10 TPDS Food 2009-10 TPDS35 kg per person per month Offtake Food Allocation(average family size=5) TPDS= BPL+APL+AAY+

DEFENCE(includingCRPF,BSF)+Bhutan

Current Plan Panel 37.88 (13.69 + 24.19) million 42.4 million tonnes 47.88 millionestimates of families= tonnes [45.46 (16.43 + 29.03) tonnes18.04 crores; BPL- million tonnes if average family6.52+APL 11.52 cror es size is 6States estimate of BPL 24.19 million tonnes--families at 11.5 crores [29.03 million tonnes if average

family size is 6]Tendulkar's estimate 17.54 million tonnesof BPL families at 8.34 [21.02 million tonnes if averagecrores family size is 6]Cavil over BPLA few significant developments are worth noting andreflecting since it is now certain that food insecuritywill surge primarily due to mismanagement of thecomfortable staple food stock. The first is the strategicpressure being applied by the Parliamentary StandingCommittee on Finance that appears to endorse thestate's number of BPL families at 11.5 crores asopposed to the Plan panel's 6.52 crores and 8.34 croresrecommended by the Suresh Tendulkar Committee.The quibble over number of poor will in allprobability escalate to the delight of numbercrunchers 'livelihood security' in the PlanningCommission, the Agriculture, the Food and theFinance ministry.

column) to 24.2 million tonnes (States numberscenario). The Tendulkar BPL estimates yield 17.54million tonnes food requirement as the middle path. Itneeds to be noted here that in addition to (TPDS-accounting for about 90 per cent of staple food offtakefrom the central pool) the current food supplyschedule also constitute food distribution on accountof nine welfare schemes (about 8 per cent of offtake)such as mid-day meal scheme, wheat based nutritionprogramme, emergency food programme to tackleincidence of extreme hunger in KBK belt of Orissalike places, allocation to hostels/welfare institutions,etc. The remaining per cent of the offtake from thecentral pool is on account ofthe open market scheme.The obduracy of the food ministry despite the



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Supreme Court intervention can be clearlyunderstood from the above. Hence the question arises:why could not the offtake be substantially augmentedunder these nine "Welfare schemes"? Three criticalpoints (allocation norms, faulty parliamentaryoversight encouraging fiscal dishonesty andobsession with misunderstood market principles) inthis respect hold the key to plausible explanations.Firstly, the allocation norms to consuming pointsfrom the central pool in addition to the frequency ofupdating these norms. In the Targeted PublicDistribution System (TPDS) an effort was also madeto target benefits to the poor. However, the principleof allocating subsidised grain across States on thebasis of their poverty ratios has led to imbalancesbetween the resulting allocations and what isnecessary to meet the difference between cerealsproduction and requirement. Also, the stabilising roleplayed by the universal PDS has weakened.As to a welfare sensitive state these are routinematters particularly governed by the Constitution ofIndiaArticles 301-306; Article 19(5) aswell asArticle19(6) (ii) in particular. Perhaps these were ignored orswept under the carpet because of the overbearing'dirty dozen' recommendations by the consulting firmMcKinsey.Parliamentary FiascoSecondly, the Parliamentary committees have beenusing the food security legislation as crutches andfronts to procrastinate as well as divert issues to otherareas of contention. Indeed a sad commentary for thedemocracy.The Parliamentary Standing Committee on Food,Consumer Affairs and Public Distribution, forinstance, is building up pressure in a calculatedmanner by extolling the empowered group ofministers to introduce the food security bill in the nextsession of the Parliament. Such actions by theStanding Committee unfortunately undermine andclash with the "mucky dozen" indictments of the foodmismanagement made inAugust 2010 to the FifteenthLok Sabha. The committee handling ruralinfrastructure does not have grassroots productionlandscape on their monitors except the ruraltelephony. One does not have to ask why since the 3M

dictum- money makes the mare go- aptly sums up theoperatining principle.These unpleasant incidents need critical appraisalfrom three perspectives at least if not more. These arequantum of grain entitlement, extent of coverage, costburden on consumers as well as on the publicexchequer and delivery mechanism. NACrecommendation of monthly 35 kgs (equivalent to 7kgs per person), for instance, is only supplemental tothe recommended total dietary allowances. Certainlythe assumption here is that these segments of theconsumer will have sufficient money income derivedfrom their economic activities that ensure livelihoodsecurity. The validity of such valiant assumptionssurely are to be contested and must be subjected todispassionate examination. The food securitydiscussions have taken place against the backdrop ofhunger and malnutrition at the one end of the spectrumand obesity and lifestyle related health ailments at theother.The unfolding events since 27th October 2010 dosuggest that a distinct slant away from hunger andmalnutrition is being encouraged by a design inimicalto ensuring food security. The latest design ofrequesting PMEAC chairman Rangarajan headedexpert group/committee to examine NACrecommendation is at best dilatory and certainly illadvised. What was the trigger for appointing 'expertgroup/committee? The terms of reference for thiscommittee is not clearly spelt out but the compositionof the group does provide a cue. For instance, theCensus Registrar-General, two-three economists andtwo bureaucrats does not inspire any confidencewhatsoever. This strategy was adopted during UPA'sterm 1 when procurement price recommendationsmade by the agricultural price commission werereferred to PMEAC for examination. The sum totalthus appears to be of a further escalation in foodinsecurity.The stylized fact indicate that we have rotting foodgrains due to absence of adequate storage facilitiesand the public distribution system ismismanaged. Theaffidavits submitted to the Supreme Court by the Foodministry indicate the bullying tactics of certain stategovernments and gross disrespect for constitutionaldirection of social justice along with economicgrowth.



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Whereas the outcome of the expert group is in therealm of distinct probability of undercutting NACrecommendation, there are certain immediate action-points that our sensitive government need to takewithout fail.Market Extraction vs FosteringThe High Level Committee for Long Term FoodgrainPolicy (2001) clearly said that "TPDS penalisedStates with relatively low incidence of incomepoverty but relatively high incidence of caloriedeficiency. At the same time, it did not reach the poorin States where the PDS was weak prior to itsintroduction. We feel that it is essential to go back tothe universal PDS, which involves one Central IssuePrice for each item that is sought to be procured anddistributed." Against this backdropIn the discussion, we must also reckon with the starkground realities revealed by the National SampleSurvey Organisation (NSSO) report in 2007. The datafrom the 61st Round (2004-05) of their survey wascarried out to know ground realities about the TPDSand household consumption pattern. This reportindicate, in no uncertain empirical terms, that marketextraction principles being followed as TPDSoperating protocol has brought in unbearably highincidence of exclusion of deprived households.Moreover, the contemporary commentaries (financeministry's discussion paper, for instance) and allmultimedia expert analyses have unmistakably builttheir arguments on the market extraction principle.For example, running down the buffer stock concept,minimum support price paid to the producers, virtuesof fiscal prudence, value addition to primary productthrough processing, etc., are merely a brief and simplelist of subj ect and language of discourse.Consequently, the gap between India and Bharat haswidened.The PDS must adopt the market fostering role asmandated by its founding charter, namely, appropriatedual pricing and market stabilisation. Here we mustunderstand that staple foodgrain stock perform threefunctions, namely, use value as diet and raw material;store value due to creation of time as well as spaceutilities since it can be consumed over a period of timeand bridge the gap between surplus and deficit areas

in the process; and precautionary or reserve stock forunforeseen natural disasters and designed greed ofspeculative price discoverers.Three-some StrategyA three pronged strategy to address these three mostdominant weaknesses ofTPDS must be the bedrock ofany fostering market tum around package. These arecreating scientific storage infrastructure,smoothening the supply schedule originating at thecentral pool and reigning in the speculative marketplayers. The common thread amongst all three is theconcentration of power a la 'welfare fascism'. Changesin food consumption over time have been also broughtabout changes in production.The arbitrages between these two changes haveneither been shared with consumers nor producers.This malady must be corrected by the fosteringmarket. This requires sync between the economicgrowth rate and public distribution system. Marketfailures are short run phenomenon and must not deterattempts to design any long term sustainable publicdistribution system in conformity with theconstitutional directive of economic growth withsocial justice.Scientific covered storage facilities, following IScode 607: 1971, must be created under the ownershipof the Panchayati Raj Institutions to encourageeffective wholesome capital formation and diffusionof market arbitrage. A leverage to accelerate this mustbe provided under the flagship rural infrastructure -'Bharat Nirman' template necessarily by replacing therural telephony window. This decentralised storagefacilities must be nurtured into reaping benefits by therural producers and all consumers of the market forfoodgrain.Two international initiatives must be referred to forderiving lessons in our efforts at attaining a marketfostering environment. These are UN SpecialRapporteur on the Right to Food, Olivier de Schutter'sclarion call to focus on the vulnerable rural (+urban-emphasis added) communities and smallholderfarmers and the Brazilian experience of supportingdecentralised food production and access throughlocal public procurement.



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CLIMATE CHANGE & ENVIRONMENTALPOLLUTION - SOME FACTS MOST IGNORED!

* Professor Arun Deep AhluwaliaGlobal warming though falsely attributed in anexaggerated manner entirely to man is in factlargely natural. All the hype and projectionsabout it makes most geologists wonder if the climatechange has been hij acked from scientists bypoliticians and some pliable scientists in IPCC havebeen been bending backwards to conform to thepoliticians and gain grants and favours from UNO andvarious governments.Earth has witnessed prolonged ice ages with muchlonger spells of global warming since the first ice agewhich was a snow ball event around 2300 millionyears. Only issue can be ifman during last 50 years offast industrialization has accelerated the naturalprocess of global warming.Last word on this question as a simplistic cause andeffect relation cannot be said with any certainty. Thesun-earth system and atmosphere ocean system is toocomplex to make such generalizations. Our biospheremay have huge capacity to absorb the carbon dioxidegenerated.

I was amazed to learn during a teleconference withCopenhagen meet from Constitution Club in Delhithat climate was a political issue in the meeting. It isindeed a pity that in their haste to fleece the poornations the Al Gores and the Obamas are twistingclimate science to suit their political and economicagendas.It was nice to see for a change a TV channel ask aquestion if we were once again heading towards amini ice age like of which has happened twice evenduring last 18000 years of global warming after thelast major ice age which had lasted around 2.4 millionyears and was preceded by a massive period of globalwarming during the age of dinosaurs followed byflourishing mammals. Sea levels which were about120metres lower than today around 18000 years ago,are even today extremely low compared to geologicalpast.

Let us restore our balance and sense of proportion inmatters of global warming and environmentalpollution. Over 1000 eminent scientists across theworld are debating if we are entering a mini ice ageand if global warming iswaning.At times one suspects that the huge money involved inall other pollutions of soil,water,air and consequentlyour food chain, mother's breast feed and even aninfant's blood, makes powers that be and their brokersall around create a crooked hype around globalwarming and divert attention from real man madepollution of the environment which doubtless is theirdirty gift tomankind.Indeed we need to promote walking, cycling, betterpublic transport and safety of pedestrians and cyclistsbut look around if anyone of these dogooders isbothered about it? None at all! They travel in charteredflights to preach car pooling! Ifthere was Nobel Prizefor hypocrisy there would be tough competition for it.If anything they are all in a mad race to promote morecars, chemical fertilizers, pesticides, GM Foods anddiscourage organic farming systematically. We doplant trees but never care to look back at the saplingsafter the ritual.Life of the poor nations and their four billionpopulations is very hard, it is not a ritual but a battle tosurvive in this climate of politics and inspite of thepolitics and climate!It is time to call the bluff of the politicians turnedpseudo climatologists/ environmentalists and recreatethe respect for water, soil, air in the spirit of our Gurus& Vedas and Guru Nanak Dev and Mahatma Gandhiand see the TRUTH of climate change as well asenvironmental pollution. If we fail to see and speakthe truth, coming generations not yet born will ask usall why were we so gullible and unwise!

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Hike Food Prices ToBoost GM Crop ApprovalIn Europe: Leaked Cable

* Rady Ananda15 December, 2010 - In a January 2008 meeting, USand Spain trade officials strategized how to increaseacceptance of genetically modified foods in Europe,including inflating food prices on the commoditiesmarket, according to a leaked US diplomatic cablereleased byWikiLeaks.During the meeting, Secretary of State forInternational Trade, Pedro Mejia, and SecretaryGeneral Alfredo Bonet "noted that commodity pricehikes might spur greater liberalization on biotechimports ."It seems Wall Street traders got the word. By June2008, food prices had spiked so severely that" TheEconomist announced that the real price of food hadreached its highest level since 1845, the year themagazine first calculated the number," reports FredKaufman in The Food Bubble: How Wall Streetstarved millions and got away with it.The unprecedented high in food prices in 2008 causedan additional 250 million people to go hungry,pushing the global number to over a billion. 2008 isalso the first year "since such statistics have been kept,that the proportion of the world's population withoutenough to eat ratcheted upward," said Kaufman.All to boost acceptance of GM foods, and done via atrading scheme on which Wall Street speculatorsprofited enormously. Mass food riots in severalnations ensued, as did an investigation by the U.S.Senate Committee on Homeland Security andGovernmental Affairs, resulting in a finding that,yes, unrestricted speculation in food commoditiescaused soaring prices.In a comment at the end of the cable, the diplomat alsorevealed a level of pessimism about Spain'swillingness to help force GM foods on Europe:"This was a very good substantive discussion.However, it is clear that while Spain will continuesometimes to vote in favor of biotechnology

liberalization proposals, the Spaniards will treadwarily on this issue given their own domesticsensitivities and other equities Spain has inthe EU."That pessimism was largely unfounded, as "Spainplanted 80 percent of all the Bt maize in the EU in2009 and maintained its record adoption rate of 22percent from the previous year," noted a report by theInternational Service for the Acquisition of Agri-biotech Applications (ISAAA).The leaked cables , amounting to over 1,300 rightnow, reveal US obsession with expanding the biotechmarket:D One leaked cable confirms US concern withpromoting GM foods in Africa, which RichardBrenneman described as "a significant item on theState Department's agenda."D In another leaked cable describing thepotential to expand US interests in "isolationist"Austria, that nation's ban on GM foods is highlighted.

D According to a leaked cable from 2007 , ofconcern was French President Sarkozy's desire toimplement a ban on GM foods in line with populistsentiment. According to GM Free Regions , Francemaintains its opposition to GM foods today.D In this leaked cable, the Pope openly blamedglobal hunger on commodity speculation and corruptpublic officials, so far refusing to support the use ofGM foods. (Also see my Dec. 12 piece, " Leakedcables confirm Pope's distance from GMO debate andlimited stance onbioethics ."More may be revealed in the remaining cables.Profiteering Leaves World open to Future PriceManipulation Food commodity speculation wasenabled in 2000 by the Commodity FuturesModernization Act. Deregulation handyman SenatorPhil Gramm (R-TX) introduced the bill, coauthored



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by financial industry lobbyists and cosponsored bySenator Richard Lugar (R-IN), the chairman of theAgriculture Committee.Mother Jones describes the legislative climate whenthe bill passed: "As part of a decades-long anti-regulatory crusade, Gramm pulled a sly legislativemaneuver that greased the way to the multibillion-dollar subprime meltdown ...."Gramm's most cunning coup on behalf of his friendsin the financial services industryfriends who gave himmillions over his 24-year congressional careercameon December 15,2000. Itwas an especially tense timein Washington. Only two days earlier, the SupremeCourt had issued its decision onBush v.Gore.President Bill Clinton and the Republican-controlledCongress were locked in a budget showdown. Itwasthe perfect moment for a wily senator to game thesystem. As Congress and the White House werehurriedly hammering out a $384-billion omnibusspending bill, Gramm slipped in a 262-page measurecalled the Commodity Futures ModernizationAct."Not only did that Act enable the subprime meltdownthat crashed the economy and put tens of millions intoforeclosure, it also enabled Wall Street investors toartificially spike the price of food."Bankers had taken control of the world's food,money chased money, and a billion people wenthungry," Kaufman clarified.After a year long investigation, he confirmed thatprice hikes in food from 2005 thru the peak in June2008 had nothing to do with the supply chain, butinstead occurred as a result of aWall Street investmentscheme known as Commodity Investment Funds.The first to develop the idea was Goldman Sachs,which took 18different food sources, including cattle,coffee, cocoa, com, hogs and wheat, and created aninvestment package. Kaufman explains:"They weighted the investment value of eachelement, blended and commingled the parts intosums, then reduced what had been a complicatedcollection of real things into a mathematical formulathat could be expressed as a single manifestation, tobe

known thenceforward as the Goldman SachsCommodity Index. Then they began to offer shares."(Kaufman summarizes his report in this June 2010interview by Thom Hartmann , and in this JulyDemocracy Now interview.)Kaufman points out that also in 2008, ConAgra Foodswas able to sell its trading arm to a hedge fund for $2.8billion. The world's largest grain trader and GMOgiant, Cargill, recorded an 86% jump in annual profitsin the first quarter of 2008, attributed to commoditytrading and an expanding biofuels market. The StarTribune calculated that Cargill earned $471,611 anhour that quarter.The investment bubble burst in June 2008 and"aggregate commodity prices fell about 60% by mid-November 2008," notes Steve Suppan of the InstituteforAgricultural and Trade Policy.Though the US House ofRepresentatives introduced aregulatory bill, " legislative loopholes will exempt atleast 40-45%" of such trades . Supporting theloopholes is Cargill, among other multinationalcorporations. Suppan concludes:"The outlook for a sustainable and transparentfinancial system to underwrite trade dependent foodsecurity isnot good ...[The budget for the just launched congressionalFinancial Crisis Inquiry Commission, scheduled toreport December 15, [2010] is just $8 million. TheWall Street lobbying budget for defeating financialreform legislation isthus far $344 million ... "The final bill was signed into law in July 2010(summarized by the New York Times ), and theCommodity Futures Trading Commission continuesto issue new rules purportedly aimed at regulatingfinancial markets. "But big banks influence the rulesgoverning derivatives through a variety of industrygroups," notes another New York Times piece.Did the artificial price hike open EU doors to GMfoods?No, in fact ISAAA noted that: "Six Europeancountries planted 94,750 hectares of biotech crops in



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2009, down from seven countries and 107,719hectares in 2008, as Germany discontinued itsplanting."A closer look at EU member state actions on GMfoods after June 2008 details some of the GM-freebattle in Europe:D In December 2008, after a ten-year hiatus,Italy agreed to open field tests ofGM crops.D The Czech Republic became the secondlargest grower of Bt com in the EU in 2008, nearlydoubling the acreage planted in 2007. The USDAcharacterized it as being an investment target not onlyin agriculture but also in vaccine development.D At the EU level, "In an apparent U-turn in hisattitude as one of EU executive's most GM-warycommissioners, environment chief Stavros Dimas"wrote draft approvals for two more varieties of GMcom, reported Reuters inDecember 2008.D However, by September 2008, Wales,Northern Ireland and Scotland had all become GM-free, and urged the UK to do likewise.D Though pressured by the EuropeanCommission, in January 2009 Hungary refused to liftits ban on GM foods. Its sovereign right to rejectGMOs, along with Austria's, was later upheld by anEU vote with 20member states supporting such bans.D In March 2009 , Luxembourg became the fifthEU nation to ban GM foods, following France,Hungary, Greece andAustria.D In October 2009, Turkey banned the import ofbiotech products.For updates and a more thorough history of EUactions on GM foods, see GMO-Free Europe .European states handle the issue differently than inthe US, allowing regions within a nation to maintainGM-free zones. Each step a nation takes toward GMapproval invariably draws regional resistance.Biotech Crops Expand Globally in 2009Though the strategy to hike food prices to spur

European acceptance of GM foods failed, it workedelsewhere. Globally, biotech crops expanded by 7% in2009 over 2008 figures, according to this chart byISAAA:In fact, ISAAA asserted GM expansion was due to the2008 price hikes, as noted by chairman and founderClive James: "With last year's food crisis, price spikes,and hunger and malnutrition afflicting more than 1billion people for the first time ever, there has been aglobal shift from efforts for just food security to foodself-sufficiency. "Poorer nations hardest hit by hunger in Africa andSouthAmerica are more vulnerable to price hikes.But even after the geologically unusual earthquake inJanuary, Haitian farmers rejected Monsanto's "gift" ofGM seeds. However, the big push remains in AfricaandChina.AWary FutureAlthough it is now widely accepted that Wall Streetspeculation caused the food bubble, starving hundredsof millions, regulators have so far failed to curb thepractices that allow international banksters tomanipulate food prices.Meanwhile, the biotech industry continues to repeatits mantra that GM food can cure world hunger.This claim is not backed by the science and it seems tohold less sway in the GM food debate, especially withthe Pope recognizing what many others assert: Thereis no shortage of food; hunger expanded because ofprice hikes.

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"Th e R o le o f p eo p le s D ip lom a cy in S tr e n g th en in gTh e M u lt ifa c e te d R e la t io n s B e twe en R us s ia a n d In d ia "New Delhi, December 20, 2010:Speakers at a seminar organized atthe Russian Centre of Science andCulture (RCSC) on December 17,2010 emphatically underscored theimportance ofpeoples' diplomacy in

to the 85th Anniversary of theFederal Agency for CIS Affairs,Compatriots Abroad andInternational HumanitarianCoo per at ion(ROSSOTRUDNICHESTVO), was

strengthening the ties betweenRussia and India. The Seminar "TheRole of Peoples' diplomacy inStrengthening the MultifacetedRelations Between Russia andIndia", marking the forthcomingvisit of H.E. Mr. DmitryMedvedev, President of the RussianFederation, to India, and dedicated

addressed by a galaxy of prominentpolitical leaders, academics,diplomats and attended by an elitegathering. Dr. Thokchom Meinya,M.P. (Lok Sabha), presided over theSeminar. A Photo Exhibition wasalso inaugurated on the occasion.The significant role ofRussian



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Centre of Science and Culture inpreparing a potential forum forpeople-to-people diplomacythrough diverse programmesthereby strengthening multifacetedrelations between India and Russiain different spheres was underlinedby Mr. Krishnan Raghunath,former Ambassador of India to

the Indian counterparts to interactwith them.Referring to the holding of theseminar as distinctly opportune interms of its relevance, topicality andsignificance, Mr. Gadzhi M.Akhmedov, Deputy Director,RCSC, in his welcome address

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and media.Describing the VISIt of RussianPresident as a decisive event in thehistory of Russian- Indian relations,Mr. Sergey V. Karmalito, SeniorCounsellor, Embassy of the RussianFederation in India, pointed out thatit gives a great opportunity for thedynamic leaders of both sides toreiterate and renew the historicalties between Russia and Indiaagainst the background of thecurrent global scenario. He citednuclear energy, science andtechnology and other fields inwhichboth sides are to sign agreementsduring the historic visit of theRussian President.Dr. Krishan Bir Chaudhary,President, Bharatiya Krishak Samajsaid that India can benefit fromRussia's rich deposits ofhydrocarbons and expertise ininfrastructure building, particularlyconstruction and engineering.Russia can benefit from India'sexpertise in pharmaceutical,information technology andcommunication sectors. Russia istoday the world leader in reducinggreen house gas emissions. Jointefforts of scientists from India and

Russia can facilitate the introductionof innovative technologies and moreeffective cooperation. Suchcooperation could not onlystrengthen food security of ourcountries, but also make it possibleto reduce the negative impact ofglobal climate change.Mr. Virendar Kataria, Ex.M.P.Mr. Ranji Thomas, Secretary, AllIndia Congress Committee, Prof.Arun Mohanty, Political Scientist,Head of the Centre for EurasianStudies, JNU,Mr. K. Jaya Kumar,M.L.A. (Tamil Nadu), Secretary, allIndia Congress Committee, Mr. S. PGovil, President, Indo-RussianCouncil for Child Development, Dr.R. B. Singh, General Secretary,India-Russia Friendship Society(Delhi State), Mr. K. L. Malhotra,General Secretary, Indian Councilfor UN Relations, Mr. S.S.Chaman, Secretary-General,Indian Association of Friendshipwith Foreign Countries, Ms.Purnima Anand, GeneralSecretary, International Federationof Indo-Russian Youth Clubs, Ms.Urmil Satyabhushan, President,Parichay Sahitya Parishad and otherspoke on the occasion.



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