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From plate to plough: Make India’s agri-exports more sustainable
by Ritika Juneja and Ashok Gulati

In FY22, India’s agri-exports reached an all-time high of $50.3 billion, registering a growth of 20% over the preceding year. This was largely made possible by rising global commodity prices, but also by favourable and aggressive export policy and various export promotion agencies like Agricultural and Processed Food Products Export Development Authority , Marine Products Export Development Authority, and commodity boards, etc. However, a strategic question that arises is: How sustainable is this growth in agri-exports, given India’s resource endowments and its own needs? Already, there has been a sudden ban on wheat exports. To answer this rationally, let us first look at the composition of agri-exports.
https://www.financialexpress.com/opinion/from-plate-to-plough-make-indias-agri-exports-more-sustainable/2533917/

Can agri-exports be made more sustainable?
by Ritika Juneja and Ashok Gulati

https://indianexpress.com/article/opinion/columns/can-agri-exports-be-made-more-sustainable-7930829/

In the fiscal year 2021-22 (FY22), agri-exports scaled an all-time high of $50.3 billion, registering a growth of 20 per cent over the preceding year. This was made possible largely by rising global commodity prices, but also by the favourable and aggressive export policy of the Ministry of Commerce and its various export promotion agencies like APEDA, MPEDA, and commodity boards. However, from a strategic point of view, an important question that arises is how sustainable is this growth in agri-exports, given India’s resource endowments and the country’s domestic needs? Already, we have seen a sudden ban on wheat exports. To answer this question rationally, let us first look at the composition of agri-exports.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aTw8bJibY0c
Kickstarting the event on 'WTO 2.0 in the post-Covid world', Dr. Nisha Taneja, Professor, ICRIER laid the ground for the deliberations on reforming the WTO.
Link to join: https://youtu.be/aTw8bJibY0c

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The supply bottlenecks causing power shortages
by Somit Dasgupta

The power sector in India is going through a crisis. Peak shortages in some states have reached double digits. Coal stocks available at thermal plants are at abysmal levels and about 106 plants out of 173 plants have reached a critical stage. On average, coal stocks available are only good enough for about eight days’ generation against a norm of 24 days. In some plants, the stocks available are just about enough to run the plant for a day or two more. Part of the problem of poor coal stock is also rumoured to be on account of the non-payment of dues of coal companies. But this is not the major cause of the shortage.

The supply bottlenecks causing power shortages Somit Dasgupta writes: Dark days lie ahead. Issues in transportation, production of coal must be addressed.