Life Style Changes Huge population base of 1.08 billion, growing at about 1.6 percent per annum, provides a large and growing domestic market for food products. While food accounts for only 9.7 percent of the total private consumption expenditure for an average American, 15 percent for the Japanese & British, for the Indian it is […]
Demographics of India Geography India is located in the south of Asian continent. The country is bordered by the Arabian Sea to its west, the Bay of Bengal to its east and the Indian Ocean to its south. India lies to the north of the equator between 8.4 and 37.6 degrees north latitude and 68.7
Opportunities for Foreign Investors It can be easily seen that Indian states offer huge investment opportunities in the food supply chain area. The opportunities present themselves in a variety of ways: a. Asset intensive Malls and Warehouses construction and cold chain transportation infrastructure; b. Post harvest agriculture practices for preservation of quality and increasing the
Tips for Curing Bad Customer Service Author: Jill Homer Bad customer service is everywhere these days — unmanned front desks, surly servers, clueless staff, employees talking on the phone, and managers who refuse to acknowledge a customer. It’s no longer an exception … poor service has become the norm. In an all-too-typical scene, a customer
Retailing in India Although “organised” retailing has been in practice for a long time in some product categories like textiles and shoes, they have been driven by the manufacturer. The changes witnessed in the industry where the retailers are organising themselves started only in the last decade. The traditional small and unorganised entrepreneurs dominate the
The Scenario in States Politically, India is divided into 28 states and six federally-administered Union Territories. The political divisions generally follow linguistic and ethnic boundaries rather than geographic transitions. India’s huge size sees climatic conditions in Kashmir having little relation to that in the extreme south. Agribusiness also varies from state to state. In this
Food Processing Industry Food Processing Industry has enormous significance for India’s development for the vital linkages and synergies it supports between industry and agriculture – the two pillars of the economy. Food processing industries have a crucial role to play in providing nutritious food to the population, increasing the shelf life of the produce and
The State of Agribusiness Nature has been very good to India. India has 52 percent of total cultivable land as against 11 percent in the world. All 15 major climates of the world from snow-bound Himalayas to hot humid southern peninsula and the Thar Desert to heavy rain areas exist in India. There are 20