tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-70445099497939812152024-03-04T23:07:51.613-08:00VigrahaVigraha is the process of breaking a complex topic or substance into smaller parts to gain a better understanding of it.Mananhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06024555690866377250noreply@blogger.comBlogger20125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7044509949793981215.post-81160855545364315192015-05-28T23:51:00.000-07:002015-05-28T23:51:26.308-07:00Co-operative Farming: Making Funding Viable<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
India is an Agriculture based country, where 67% population is dependent on agriculture. But the share of agriculture in India's GDP is just 14%. A stark contradiction. This is true as many of these farmers do not own a farm land. There are almost 30% farmers who work as a laborer in the farm land and do not own a farm land. More over, agriculture in India is dependent on rain, many states do not have irrigation facility. Farmer suicide is a common problem. The reason for increasing suicide is more or less attributed to financing. Many states have come up with an option of opening the sector to private sector and many of the states such as Maharashtra, Gujarat, Karnataka, Rajasthan, Tamil Nadu have made changes in the policy to allow Corporate Farming.<br />
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Few large Corporate have also acquired land and were planning to start mass farming with other supporting infrastructural facilities. This is a good idea considering the fact that many farmers are only laborers and do not own farming land addition to this, corporate can provide agricultural infrastructure facility of warehouses, cold storage, transportation, silos etc. Even financial institutions are willing to fund such large projects as there is a less possibility of a default. Banks and other financial institutions when lend funds, secures or at least require some assurance of their funding will be used effectively and will be returned back with interest. Financial institutions worries about return of their funding, and that is the reason why small farmers do not get funding from such financial institutions. Even micro finance institutions stay away from such uncertain sector where major dependence is on whether. The need of the hour suggests that there is need to create a structure under which finances can made available to these small farmers and also the interest of financial institutions needs to be maintained in the business.<br />
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Co-operative Farming is the solution. A group of farmers come together create a co-operative society, under which the assets of all member farmers will be collated and against which funding can be made available. Co-operative society's duty is to create required supporting agriculture infrastructure of storage, warehouses, transportation facility. Such infrastructure can be kept as a collateral with financial institutions. Financial institutions can keep a check on such facilities and other activities, time to time. Under this mechanism farmers can get funding for their farming needs and also for setting up supporting infrastructure. Peer pressure can force farmers to pay back the amount received from financial institution.<br />
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Co-operative farming is one step towards ensuring funding for small farmers as well as growth of agriculture in the country. With some modification and incentives, innovative farming can be encouraged in such farm lands. </div>
Mananhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06024555690866377250noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7044509949793981215.post-87280209312491377872015-03-15T08:33:00.001-07:002015-03-15T08:33:08.029-07:00(S)Crude Reality<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Prices of oil is falling and once it reached one of its lowest in few years. Prices are still falling and expected to go further down beyond $40. Other side the market is also plummeting. Europe is facing its worse problems, China's growth is falling, Russia fuhhhh.... no need to explain. and interesting fact is the country whose economy is dependent on oil is not worried. What is it going on with oil? Is globalization playing a part in all this? The answer to this is YES, globalization is playing a very important role in these events.<br />
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Usually, oil companies make a future deal and the derivative market also plays a very important role in deciding prices of oil. This market is based on the demand and supply. But the twist here is, oil trader's went into a forward contract with a view that the oil prices will remain range bound for some time, the situation arise out of geopolitical situation, the demand for oil has reduced. And a new alternative shell gas had been discovered (this was discovered few years back, but the announcements made the difference) and it was suggested that this will reduce the need for crude oil. The prices start plummeting.<br />
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There is another angle to this fall in crude prices is that its demand increased. US is the largest consumer of oil in the world. In fact the crude consumption in the US is double the crude oil consumption of China and India both together. Shell gas was discovered mainly in the US, still the US is accumulating oil more than the earlier. According to the market data provider company Genscape, the US is producing and importing 1 million more barrel of oil everyday and there is a possibility that the storage tanks at Cushing, Oklahoma could be full by mid April, further reducing the demand of oil and bringing down the oil prices.<br />
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Now there is a question how all this affects the Global economy. Reduction of oil prices, pinches the oil companies. After certain level, when companies have made purchases at one level, and prices fall further, MTM losses increases. Further, at low prices, refining cost could be more than the oil prices. Once prices fall further, even the transportation cost could not be cover. All these will lead to losses for oil companies and will also impact their other investments in other countries. Market crashes and spiraling the problem.<br />
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It is a reality that the Globalization has helped the world to prosper. but it is also true that the problem in one global commodity can impact the world economy badly. Globalization has its advantages as well as its problems. Crude has Screwed many economies, countries and companies.</div>
Mananhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06024555690866377250noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7044509949793981215.post-80858945324694356712012-11-13T07:39:00.001-08:002012-11-13T07:39:19.863-08:00<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
After a long time I am writing on my blog. This time on a Diwali day, market is gloom Mahurat session ended in red and Economy is in bad state, IIP nos. are disappointing, manufacturing growth is negative and in all this gloom I am again writing here to initiate a discussion to understand what is more important or rather what requires our attention Growth or Inflation.<br />
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Government has started taking steps towards the revival but the saying suggest "aag lahgne ke baad khadda nahi khoda jata". The best possible way to bring back the growth is bringing foreign investment in the country. FIIs are that capable of holding the growth but FDI is and will be the main source of the growth. Government has allowed allowed FDI in Multi Brand retail, increased the FDI limit in Single Brand retail and in aviation as well as in Insurance but still the sentiments have not changed. The reason behind this is implementation of these steps taken by the government, even after taking the decision to allow FDI, the RBI has not incorporated this change in their system.<br />
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RBI governor is in a dilemma what to prioritize, Growth or Inflation. RBI has given priority to the growth. Interest rates are still high though the RBI has provided liquidity in the system but that is not enough. When the country is facing a threat of credit degradation, they must take step for improving the economy and allow growth.<br />
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What is more important here is to provide a one window clearances for such investments in India. FDI limit is different in different sectors but it is important that we provide easy and fast clearances to such investments.<br />
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In my views RBI should lower the interest rate in their next review which will allow the industry to borrow and start looking for the growth.</div>
Mananhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06024555690866377250noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7044509949793981215.post-23665499584593058192010-12-20T08:59:00.000-08:002010-12-20T09:15:37.778-08:003G Technology : A new price war?3G Technology has been rolled out by 2 operators in India and there is a possibility of a new price war scenario in this space. Last years when DOCOMO reduced calling rates to 1p/sec a new low pricing war started. Even the established players like Airtel, Vodafone and Idea have slashed their calling rates.<br /><br />With introduction of 3G the same price war scenario is expected. DOCOMO has rolled out 3G during Diwali and now Airtel is ready, but in all these cases the price war is very unlikely. There are 3 reasons for it.<br /><br />First reason is 3G license were very costly and plus installation cost were huge. Which will actually restrict telecom operators from reducing their rates. <br /><br />Second reason is that with the emergence of so many mobile handset companies the price of handsets are decreasing significantly and selling of mobile handsets are increasing but around 70% mobile handsets do not have 3G technology built in. so in a whole group of Mobile holders only 25%-30% are potential customers.<br /><br />The third reason is that the Government has allocated 3G licenses to 2-3 operators per circle. and the operators who has received 3G licenses are established players in the market. DOCOMO has cash with them to function 3G effectively and they are experienced too. Vodafone though facing legal battle for tax, still can run 3G with foreign money. Airtel too has a good debt payment record and thus their will be less problem for them to raise money and repay it. Reliance is in some pain but the policy of Reliance group is that they do not do charity. <br /><br />With all these reason I think There is NO possibility of Price war after 3G starts functioning fully.Mananhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06024555690866377250noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7044509949793981215.post-59852007156988262222010-08-21T06:42:00.000-07:002010-08-21T07:40:31.044-07:00A Strange Problem : money savingIndia, A country where elders always advise their sons & daughters to save money. And after the recent global meltdown it is quite obvious that its a good habit. Now, even Americans have started saving money but according to economists there it is a matter of concern as in this recovery phase if people won't spend, the recovery would be slow and which may depress many people and which may create another slowdown.<br /><br />But how Saving can be a problem as it helps one to use his saving in need. Economists are right about the fact that people should spend which helps to rotate economic cycle and helps to create more jobs. But they are missing a point, If people start spending like before it may shorten the economy cycle. and may be again in few years we see another depression. If people save some money, the recovery would be little slow but it will help the economy build it self with greater strength. <br /><br />I think government can address both this issues. Government should direct all the employers small or big, deposit salaries of all their employees in a bank account. Bank will create savings account for all the employees and they will deduct 10% of their salary and allow them to spend or take credit on remaining 90%. This process will serve 3 purposes, it will help government to track black money, help banks to track defaulters, and help the economy to sustain itself for a longer period.<br /><br />This is just an opinion. have a thought.Mananhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06024555690866377250noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7044509949793981215.post-59293229445103881742010-03-19T09:51:00.000-07:002010-05-04T22:09:02.835-07:00First Hollywood, then Bollywood and now its SportywoodThis word 'wood' is something amazing with whoever it attaches gets famous or we can say it is attached to only those things which are famous and provides entertainment and remarkable. English film industry known as Hollywood, world’s largest movie making industry Indian film industry known as Bollywood, then came the famous Tiger woods who provided good entertainment to media and gave a chance to those alleged mistresses to appear on TV and news is that they all might take part in Fashion show, great. Provides opportunity to its stakeholders to be famous and get entertained. <br /><br />3 years back when BCCI had started IPL we thought this will be another cricketing affair but today when we check IPL is more than cricket it is mixture of cricket and entertainment. DJs are played at all the match venues. Filmstars buying teams and those who could not afford associating themselves with one or the other team and even the cameraman focuses on filmstars time to time while match is going. This is something incredible. <br /><br />Now it’s a trend in India that for every other sport event organizers call one or the other filmstars to entertain people. Recently at Commonwealth Boxing championship organizers has arranged music show to entertain viewers. <br />These systems open a new gate for the entertainers top associate themselves with sports and earn more limelight. Now, with the ongoing IPL we will see more such incidences. Good for viewers that for a ticket for one game they are getting entertained. JAI HO SPORTYWOOD……Mananhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06024555690866377250noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7044509949793981215.post-24388116650145909782010-03-19T09:23:00.000-07:002010-03-19T10:03:12.906-07:00Budget 2010: Mind numbersYou all must be surprised that after almost 20 days why am I analyzing and writing about the Union budget, but this budget is so interesting that I can’t resist myself from writing about it. Highlight of budget says that Income tax exemption limit has increased and the tax structure has changed these are positive news. But at the same time FM has increased export duty, hike in Petrol prices and increase in stamp duty on land registration and building construction. <br /><br />In all if we see there are so many thing which can affect common man in his day to day life such as increase in petrol prices which will indirectly help to take the inflation higher or even excise duty hike will indirectly increase the burden on common man but, there is something positive about this budget and it is that it gives the indication that government is looking for growth. Government has not rolled back any stimulus which is really positive for the industries and one more important thing government has did is that they have increased tax slab. The change in the tax slab is not too high but even a small increase in one’s earning results in more spending and we will see this in near future. <br /><br />When a person tends to earn X money he used to save X/4 money and when his salary increases and becomes X+5000 he try to spend those money and it helps the economy. Even 100 bucks from an individual helps the economy to pick up and here we are talking about nearly 20% Indians it’s huge. <br /><br />These all are evident from the fact that Indian stock exchanges are showing positive signs. After these stock exchanges has became the face of the economy we try to convince ourselves that the economy is picking up after every high at stock exchanges and these further improves the sentiments and helps people to append more which results in pick up in economy. With this global condition is showing positive signs which further helped stock exchanges to move further.<br /><br />In all I can say the Union Budget is not only about numbers but it is more than that. It gives the indication what government priorities are and what they going to do in future.Mananhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06024555690866377250noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7044509949793981215.post-70160466690481182592009-04-01T06:09:00.000-07:002009-04-01T06:19:46.364-07:00American Recovery and Reinvestment Act: Is Pendulum is swinging the other way?<o:smarttagtype namespaceuri="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" name="place"></o:smarttagtype><o:smarttagtype namespaceuri="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" name="country-region"></o:smarttagtype><o:smarttagtype namespaceuri="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" name="date"></o:smarttagtype><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:worddocument> <w:view>Normal</w:View> <w:zoom>0</w:Zoom> <w:compatibility> <w:breakwrappedtables/> <w:snaptogridincell/> <w:wraptextwithpunct/> <w:useasianbreakrules/> </w:Compatibility> <w:browserlevel>MicrosoftInternetExplorer4</w:BrowserLevel> </w:WordDocument> </xml><![endif]--><!--[if !mso]><object classid="clsid:38481807-CA0E-42D2-BF39-B33AF135CC4D" id="ieooui"></object> <style> st1\:*{behavior:url(#ieooui) } </style> <![endif]--><style> <!-- /* Style Definitions */ p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal {mso-style-parent:""; margin:0in; margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";} @page Section1 {size:8.5in 11.0in; margin:1.0in 1.25in 1.0in 1.25in; mso-header-margin:.5in; mso-footer-margin:.5in; mso-paper-source:0;} div.Section1 {page:Section1;} --> </style><!--[if gte mso 10]> <style> /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:"Table Normal"; mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; mso-style-noshow:yes; mso-style-parent:""; mso-padding-alt:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; mso-para-margin:0in; mso-para-margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman";} </style> <![endif]--> <p class="MsoNormal"><st1:date month="2" day="24" year="2009">24<sup>th</sup> Feb 2009</st1:date>, <st1:country-region><st1:place>US</st1:place></st1:country-region> president Barak Obama made his first speech to the Congress.<span style=""> </span>He started with very strong point motivating the whole country and conveying the steps his government has taken to fight this Financial Crisis. The speech was very good. We can say that this is the speech which is the need of the hour. Government has made the Law name ‘American Recovery and Re investment Act’. With this act Government of US will start spending in those areas which generates most jobs in the market including Infrastructure and Education.
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<br /></p><p class="MsoNormal">According to this plan US citizens will receive a tax cut that will reflect in the pay checks from April 1<sup>st</sup>. This is a very good sign. <st1:country-region><st1:place>US</st1:place></st1:country-region> government is putting money in the people’s hand so that they can spend this extra money and which will generate demand which will help to revive the economy.</p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style=""> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal">
<br /></p><p class="MsoNormal">But one thing which raises eyebrows across the world is that from now on their will be no tax benefits for those companies who outsource their work to other countries. Is this the indication of a swing of pendulum from open economy to Protectionism? Human psychology suggests that whenever Pendulum is on the right side people will love to see it on Left and vice versa. When economy was booming every one in <st1:country-region><st1:place>Russia</st1:place></st1:country-region> was crying for open economy and now when world is under the biggest crisis everyone seems interested in Protectionism including the most liberal and open country in the world in terms of its economic decisions. </p> <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal">
<br /></p><p class="MsoNormal">After the 1929 financial crisis when Economists found the reason for the crisis was a closed economy and under spending nature for people. In other words we can say that the <st1:country-region><st1:place>US</st1:place></st1:country-region> economy was not that encouraging that people would think of starting their own business, taking some risk which stopped them from asking more and spending more and this was the reason for the 1929 financial crisis. After then US economy was open for all and we have seen its fruitful results. In fact US taught other countries to open their economy allow your businesses to expand beyond their country which will help them to grow, which will allow country to gain foreign exchange. This step will bring in competition and it will help consumers with choices. And when you have different choices people will start spending as with these choices they get tempted to spend. </p> <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style=""> </span>
<br /></p><p class="MsoNormal">Protectionism can not be a solution for any countries growth. If you check <st1:country-region><st1:place>India</st1:place></st1:country-region> where the internal demand is so strong that even in such high crisis time Indian economy has not affected much. Before 1992 when Indian economy was not that open and even having Democracy, government was working with the socialist thinking. Even during that such protectionism has not helped <st1:country-region><st1:place>India</st1:place></st1:country-region> to make its mark on the global Finance chart even after having such a great internal diversity and internal demand. Such protectionist steps will not help US as US has no great internal demand, and such stopping of outsource sing will affect the other countries such as <st1:place>Europe</st1:place> and <st1:country-region><st1:place>China</st1:place></st1:country-region> which largely dependent on export of their medical and hardware stuffs respectively to US. The best way to tackle this financial crisis is to injecting money in the market and allowing people to spend more. And for this it is very important that all the countries in the world start working together and for that open economy is very important.</p> <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <meta equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><meta name="ProgId" content="Word.Document"><meta name="Generator" content="Microsoft Word 10"><meta name="Originator" content="Microsoft Word 10"><link rel="File-List" href="file:///C:%5CDOCUME%7E1%5Cmanan%5CLOCALS%7E1%5CTemp%5Cmsohtml1%5C01%5Cclip_filelist.xml"><o:smarttagtype namespaceuri="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" name="City"></o:smarttagtype><o:smarttagtype namespaceuri="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" name="place"></o:smarttagtype><o:smarttagtype namespaceuri="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" name="country-region"></o:smarttagtype><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:worddocument> <w:view>Normal</w:View> <w:zoom>0</w:Zoom> <w:compatibility> <w:breakwrappedtables/> <w:snaptogridincell/> <w:wraptextwithpunct/> <w:useasianbreakrules/> </w:Compatibility> <w:browserlevel>MicrosoftInternetExplorer4</w:BrowserLevel> </w:WordDocument> </xml><![endif]--><!--[if !mso]><object classid="clsid:38481807-CA0E-42D2-BF39-B33AF135CC4D" id="ieooui"></object> <style> st1\:*{behavior:url(#ieooui) } </style> <![endif]--><style> <!-- /* Style Definitions */ p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal {mso-style-parent:""; margin:0in; margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";} @page Section1 {size:8.5in 11.0in; margin:1.0in 1.25in 1.0in 1.25in; mso-header-margin:.5in; mso-footer-margin:.5in; mso-paper-source:0;} div.Section1 {page:Section1;} --> </style><!--[if gte mso 10]> <style> /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:"Table Normal"; mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; mso-style-noshow:yes; mso-style-parent:""; mso-padding-alt:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; mso-para-margin:0in; mso-para-margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman";} </style> <![endif]--> <p class="MsoNormal">
<br /></p><p class="MsoNormal">Even the WTO chief Lamy Pascal has urged <st1:country-region><st1:place><st1:country-region><st1:place>US</st1:place></st1:country-region></st1:place></st1:country-region> president not to become Protectionist and lead other countries to tackle such a financial turmoil. Even today while having a press conference at <st1:city><st1:place>London</st1:place></st1:city> <st1:country-region><st1:place>US</st1:place></st1:country-region> president Barak Obama has said that we should not become protectionist. now we can only hope that this pendulum swing the other way and again the world economy start flourishing.
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If there is anything wrong so please correct me.<br /><br /> Thank you and again Sorry for such a long break.<br /><br />Manan BhattMananhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06024555690866377250noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7044509949793981215.post-55847139961909862892008-10-19T06:15:00.000-07:002008-10-19T06:19:21.728-07:00Global Warming : A path towards the End<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEixOvyPzlyLhC8aDn33GAaV0em3571LTBI8oV_y3z1BAM9jytZizzC8UacFhnaUczO5zMzHsoAYPhkNRbAg4IZiEUwVlhPY3jVt3mQwUzM2LWBDS_zY0UK1Jfat2uMLMf8dkVjUi1E-lrFM/s1600-h/shark-global-warming.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEixOvyPzlyLhC8aDn33GAaV0em3571LTBI8oV_y3z1BAM9jytZizzC8UacFhnaUczO5zMzHsoAYPhkNRbAg4IZiEUwVlhPY3jVt3mQwUzM2LWBDS_zY0UK1Jfat2uMLMf8dkVjUi1E-lrFM/s320/shark-global-warming.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5258853495726115746" border="0" /></a><br /><br />We wonder do fishes talk the way we talk. Do they gossip? Many will laugh but this is the truth. The cartoonist has shown his worries very intelligently. The way this GLOBAL WARMING is increasing, days are not too far when sea level rise and we all will drown. Now a day every body is talking about GLOBAL WARMING, but we wonder what exactly Global Warming is? Greenhouse gases trap some of the sun’s energy within our atmosphere and increase the temperature of the Earth’s surface and atmosphere and this is termed as Global Warming. When solar energy passes through the atmosphere, is absorbed by the Earth’s surface and warms it up. Greenhouse gases such as CO2 and CFC present in the air absorb some of the reflected heat energy. Human actions gradually increase concentration of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere and lead to global warming. This accelerated process has a number of dangerous impacts.<br /><br />CO2 and CFC are already present in the atmosphere in a proportion so that Sun rays does not affect earth’s climate but when human become over ambitious and starts processes which will imbalance the atmosphere and increases such greenhouse gases in the atmosphere. There are different actions which cause in increasing greenhouse gases in the atmosphere.<br /><br />First and the most important is ‘Deforestation’. Deforestation means to cut green forest of trees. This process reduces fertile land which causes food crisis. In Nigeria 250000 hectares of fertile land becomes Desert. This 250000 hectares is equal to the size of a Luxembourg. UN report says that in future 30 to 50% of the fertile land will become Desert which will create huge food crisis. Even today we fell heat of food crisis. Second largest wheat producing country Australia is facing this heat and its largest wheat producing land is under a biggest drought of recent times in Australia. This Deforestation not only brings Drought but it also creates flood situation. Trees play the biggest role in stopping water and deciding its boundary. But as there are no trees water does not stop and the average rate of floods has been increased.<br /><br />Agriculture too plays a big role in global warming. Agriculture is a huge source of methane and nitrous oxide. To grow foods human have started creating an environment for food so that corps will come easily but it helped in increasing Greenhouse gases.<br />Report says one quarter of all man-made CO2 emissions is transportation related. Today in this fast world everybody needs faster means of transportation and which cause more and more vehicles on the road because of this large amount of CO2 is being emitted in the atmosphere. 750 million cars worldwide emit a total of approx. 2.25 billion tons of CO2 each year. Oh this is huge. Even industrialization is responsible for more than half of all CO2 emission. Largest quantities of CO2 emitted by energy producers and energy intensive industries.<br /><br />All this causes high temperature world wide and which causes melting of glaciers. Since the early 1960s mountain glaciers around the world have experienced an estimated loss of over 4000 cubic kilometers of water. Projection says 4 degree rise in average global temperatures would cause nearly all of the world’s glaciers to melt, resulting in rising sea level which causes storm and floods. Globally, the annual number of strong storms doubled from around 8 in early 1970 to 18 and it is still increasing. In 3 months US has face 3 storms. Hurricane Katrina in 2005 was the 6th largest hurricane on record and caused 60 billion US Dollars in damage.<br /><br />So should we stop agriculture? Should we stop industrialization and using any vehicle? Answer to this is No, but at the same time we should follow some strict rules to reduce greenhouse gases from the atmosphere. While farming wean use organic farming which does not produce greenhouse gases. While driving vehicles we should use gases instead of petrol and diesel which emits less amount of CO2 and even we can green fuel. Even for industries we can use new technologies which reduce CO2 emission by 30 to 50%.<br /><br />For this government should encourage industries to use such new technology. Even government should try to educate people about Global Warming and its ill effects and with that they should teach people how they can help in reducing emission of CO2 in atmosphere.<br /><br />UN and some government have started taking steps towards reducing CO2 emission by educating a younger generation not to use age old methods which emits more amount of CO2. EU ahs started giving carbon credits to the industries which reduces their CO2 emission. And these industries can help other industry in lowering CO2 emission. This CARBON CREDIT is very helpful in lowering CO2 emission in industries.<br /><br />With this note I will appeal everybody to use green products which help in reducing CO2 emission and plant at least one tree it will help the nature and ultimately it will help you and your next generation.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjAHj3OoJ7Juzq1i8G_Qg3xWCXyR6vMzO_ymcrNx-PQOyNbf9EJLePV9zTKKM6yGMtOE9ZJSlo-faYHWAbJ2UOsZxErTJorkEAQCqobW2tAFDxfEkcfVb1mOsQqMFnS3kVrGcv8qGgtMlQw/s1600-h/global_warming_is_uncool.gif"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjAHj3OoJ7Juzq1i8G_Qg3xWCXyR6vMzO_ymcrNx-PQOyNbf9EJLePV9zTKKM6yGMtOE9ZJSlo-faYHWAbJ2UOsZxErTJorkEAQCqobW2tAFDxfEkcfVb1mOsQqMFnS3kVrGcv8qGgtMlQw/s320/global_warming_is_uncool.gif" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5258853675400597666" border="0" /></a>Mananhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06024555690866377250noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7044509949793981215.post-15784741516545953332008-09-14T02:52:00.000-07:002008-09-14T02:54:34.007-07:00N-Powering India: India-US Nuclear Deal6 September 2008, A historic day came when NSG (Nuclear Suppliers Group) gave its nod to India-US Nuclear deal. With this nod India’s Nuclear isolation of 34 years has been over. This deal says, India will have uninterrupted supply of Nuclear Fuel for its US-made nuclear reactors. India and the US will agree to transfer nuclear material, non-nuclear material, equipment and components. US will support/help India in developing strategic reserves of nuclear fuel to guard against future disruption of nuclear supply using its international 'Big Brother' role. In case of disruption, US and India will jointly convene a group of friendly supplier countries (NSG) to include nations like Russia, France and the UK to pursue such measures to restore fuel supply.<br /><br /> But this deal is not only about Nuclear Fuel but there are many other advantages of this deal which will make huge impact on both US and India’s economy and it will help India to put it’s economic growth in the second gear. Indian government and the opposition is emphasizing on Energy production with this Nuclear Fuel but this deal is not limited to provide only Nuclear Fuel but it is of providing Nuclear technology which was not accessible to India. Access to these nuclear technologies will help Indian companies to reach on another level. <br /><br />Biggest beneficiary of this deal is IT and Software industry as a relaxation in global technology rules gives India access to much more advanced tech, spelling a quantum leap for the IT companies of the country. Indian companies now have to reinvent the wheel. For instance access to high-performance computing systems — a lot of which are currently denied to India under various export control regimes will put Indian software and IT R&D in a different league. HPC systems have contributed to leading-edge developments in such diverse applications as weapons design, integrated-circuit simulation, automobile crash simulation, seismic prospecting, and drug design.<br /><br />Weather analysis and forecasting will benefit with this deal as it has nuclear application which has been denied to India will be easily available. Digital phosphor oscilloscopes, which are indispensable for oil refineries and electronics industry, also have a nuclear role and are currently barred — but will now be available. Filamentary poles, important for making tennis rackets, golf clubs and fishing poles, are also inaccessible because they can be used for uranium enrichment. Compressors, testing systems, furnaces for power generation, mining equipment, high-voltage power supplies, industrial and scientific equipment like heat exchangers, piping, fittings, valves, measuring and calibrating equipment... Many of these have applications in different sectors and access to them would give Indian manufacturing a huge boost.<br /><br />There is also technology and scientific research that relates to civilian applications in medicine, radiology and industry. Communications switching equipment, certain types of electronic equipment, lower speed photography equipment, pressure-measuring instruments, and numerically controlled machine tools — much of all this is currently out of bounds for India's knowledge economy. <br /><br />In the field of medicine, X-ray imagers that use cobalt-60 may soon become accessible. So will specialized equipment for oil and gas exploration. Nuclear well-logging is used by advanced countries to help predict the commercial viability of new and existing oil and gas wells, and it could become available in India as well.<br /><br />Nuclear deal will help India’s defense program as it gets a free hand to purchase previously restricted conventional weapons, most notably Israel's Arrow missile defense system, and partially US-funded program. The Arrow interceptor is a Category I missile capable of delivering a 500-kg payload to a range of 300 km. Also denied to India are ocean surveillance systems and satellite systems for electronic reconnaissance, navigation, military meteorology, and nuclear explosion detection. But the doors are slowly opening. <br /><br />Indian companies or research entities would like to participate in global projects like Eureka in the EU for market-oriented R&D in robotics, environment technology, agriculture, bio-sciences etc, but a lot of those technologies are currently denied to India. When the denial veil is lifted in one sector it also has a ripple effect in other sectors. <br /><br />The possibilities are immense in emerging scientific disciplines like nanotechnology and synthetic biology that draw upon many other branches of science, all of which are controlled technologies. The nuclear deal will not suddenly land all these technologies on India's doorstep, but what is important is that people will not turn away Indians automatically. The playing field will become a little less skewed against India.<br /><br />After this deal when other countries when other countries want to build nuclear reactors in India, it will be Indian companies like L&T and BHEL that will get the contracts for the components. Indian companies will become component providers and vendors to these projects. India will become a nuclear energy components provider but I will take few years. According to L&T sources they have already started working on this component and now they have all technologies to start production. <br /><br />This Nuclear deal will help India in many ways but it will take some time but the US will see its immediate effect. This nuclear deal is worth 6.4Billion which will help US economy to stabilize. If India purchases 1 nuclear reactor it will generate 5000 direct jobs and more than 10000 indirect jobs in US which will help its economy. India is planning for 14 civilian nuclear reactors this will help many people in US to get job and help government to tackle this crisis situation persists in US.<br /><br />We hope that Indian government will use this deal to its full extent and allow Indian companies to scale new heights.Mananhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06024555690866377250noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7044509949793981215.post-57550679221612445362008-07-25T23:49:00.000-07:002008-12-08T19:07:23.181-08:00GLOBAL FOOD CRISIS: The Biggest Crisis on the globEvery one is talking about High Crude prices, High inflation but there is a bigger threat GLOBAL FOOD CRISIS is emerging. A global food catastrophe will reach further and be more crippling than anything the world has ever seen. The credit crunch and the reverberations of soaring oil prices around the world will pale in comparison to what is about to transpire. Food prices have been rising for a while. In some countries this has resulted in food riots and in the case of <st1:country-region><st1:place>Haiti</st1:place></st1:country-region> where food prices increased by 50-100%, the Prime Minister was forced out of office. Elsewhere people have been killed, and many more injured. While media reports have been concentrating on the immediate causes, the deeper issues and causes have not been discussed as much.<o:p></o:p><span style=""><br /></span><p class="MsoNormal"><span style=""> <iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='320' height='266' src='https://www.blogger.com/video.g?token=AD6v5dzEtnThtiQvbB3WH8gmWCZT4qOPx2OsASyYDk58wn8kq5NLqZNROQZWty837213p8A7ZonZMmvyvPLa_xx3pg' class='b-hbp-video b-uploaded' frameborder='0'></iframe> </span><br /></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal">The World Bank reports that global food prices rose 83% over the last three years and the FAO cites a 45% increase in their world food price index during just the past nine months. The Economist’s comparable index stands at its highest point since it was originally formulated in 1845. As of March 2008, average world wheat prices were 130% above their level a year earlier, soy prices were 87% higher, rice had climbed 74%, and Maize was up 31%.</p><p class="MsoNormal"><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiz2o9MMNtrrHr4V9E-L0r8ACEYKS9aoStbV1jB0V1mMcliq1bbnQ_PHiE3pDYcvCB7wt-zXObJ-YiZqcGdakdYGu5mqI0Z80pLXNftMhpDFBRvQkVOBHjgfTrh-Z1RxZoqw-kKnEzHvoS2/s1600-h/food+crisis.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiz2o9MMNtrrHr4V9E-L0r8ACEYKS9aoStbV1jB0V1mMcliq1bbnQ_PHiE3pDYcvCB7wt-zXObJ-YiZqcGdakdYGu5mqI0Z80pLXNftMhpDFBRvQkVOBHjgfTrh-Z1RxZoqw-kKnEzHvoS2/s320/food+crisis.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5227214988688072802" border="0" /></a><br /> <br /></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><!--[if gte vml 1]><v:shapetype id="_x0000_t75" coordsize="21600,21600" spt="75" preferrelative="t" path="m@4@5l@4@11@9@11@9@5xe" filled="f" stroked="f"> <v:stroke joinstyle="miter"> <v:formulas> <v:f eqn="if lineDrawn pixelLineWidth 0"> <v:f eqn="sum @0 1 0"> <v:f eqn="sum 0 0 @1"> <v:f eqn="prod @2 1 2"> <v:f eqn="prod @3 21600 pixelWidth"> <v:f eqn="prod @3 21600 pixelHeight"> <v:f eqn="sum @0 0 1"> <v:f eqn="prod @6 1 2"> <v:f eqn="prod @7 21600 pixelWidth"> <v:f eqn="sum @8 21600 0"> <v:f eqn="prod @7 21600 pixelHeight"> <v:f eqn="sum @10 21600 0"> </v:formulas> <v:path extrusionok="f" gradientshapeok="t" connecttype="rect"> <o:lock ext="edit" aspectratio="t"> </v:shapetype><v:shape id="_x0000_i1025" type="#_x0000_t75" alt="Dairy, oils & fats, and cereals have risen the most in the past year, with more modest rises in sugar and meet" style="'width:375pt;height:333pt'"> <v:imagedata src="file:///C:\DOCUME~1\manan\LOCALS~1\Temp\msohtml1\01\clip_image001.png" href="http://www.globalissues.org/i/food/prices/food-price-index-apr-07-apr-08.png"> </v:shape><![endif]--><!--[if !vml]--><!--[if gte vml 1]><v:shapetype id="_x0000_t75" coordsize="21600,21600" spt="75" preferrelative="t" path="m@4@5l@4@11@9@11@9@5xe" filled="f" stroked="f"> <v:stroke joinstyle="miter"> <v:formulas> <v:f eqn="if lineDrawn pixelLineWidth 0"> <v:f eqn="sum @0 1 0"> <v:f eqn="sum 0 0 @1"> <v:f eqn="prod @2 1 2"> <v:f eqn="prod @3 21600 pixelWidth"> <v:f eqn="prod @3 21600 pixelHeight"> <v:f eqn="sum @0 0 1"> <v:f eqn="prod @6 1 2"> <v:f eqn="prod @7 21600 pixelWidth"> <v:f eqn="sum @8 21600 0"> <v:f eqn="prod @7 21600 pixelHeight"> <v:f eqn="sum @10 21600 0"> </v:formulas> <v:path extrusionok="f" gradientshapeok="t" connecttype="rect"> <o:lock ext="edit" aspectratio="t"> </v:shapetype><v:shape id="_x0000_i1025" type="#_x0000_t75" alt="Dairy, oils & fats, and cereals have risen the most in the past year, with more modest rises in sugar and meet" style="'width:375pt;height:333pt'"> <v:imagedata src="file:///C:\DOCUME~1\manan\LOCALS~1\Temp\msohtml1\01\clip_image001.png" href="http://www.globalissues.org/i/food/prices/food-price-index-apr-07-apr-08.png"> </v:shape><![endif]--><br />Dairy, Oils, Fats, cereals have risen the most in the past year, with more modest rises in sugar and meat. But the crisis was not a sudden one. Prices have been rising for quite some time now, and perhaps earlier warning signs were ignored or missed. Several factors contributed to the rising food prices. Analysts attributed price rise to the poor harvests in various parts of the world. With the Global environmental changes climatic conditions are changing in the world. This changes leads to natural calamities. The most influential is the extended drought in <st1:country-region><st1:place>Australia</st1:place></st1:country-region>, in particular Murray-Darling basin. The drought has caused annual rice harvest to fall nearly 98%. The other events that have negatively affected the price of food include the unseasonable 2008 rains in <st1:place><st1:city>Kerala</st1:city>, <st1:country-region>India</st1:country-region></st1:place>, which destroyed swathes of grain. The effects of Cyclone Nargis, in <st1:country-region><st1:place>Burma</st1:place></st1:country-region> in May 2008 caused spike in the prices of rice. Scientists have stated that such incidents are consistent with the predict effects of climate change.</p> <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal">The other factor for the price rise of food is increasing Biofuel usage. One systematic cause of the high food prices is due to diversion of food corps to fuel. As the environment is taking its toll on the developed countries, now they have found a new to stop sudden environment change by using Biofuel in place of normal crude. An estimated 100 million tonnes of grain per year are being redirected from food to fuel. As farmers are devoting larger parts of their larger parts of corps for fuel production which results in lesser amount of land available for food production. The reports mentions Grain has been diverted away from food, to fuel; (Over a third of <st1:country-region><st1:place>US</st1:place></st1:country-region> corn is now used to produce ethanol; about half of vegetable oils in the EU go towards the production of biodiesel). Based on the most detailed analysis of the crisis so far, Biofuel have forced global food prices up by 75%, According to World Bank report obtain by the Guardian. </p> <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal">Senior development sources believe the report, completed in April, has not been published to avoid embarrassing situation for world top leaders. Rich countries have tried to blame poor and developing countries like <st1:country-region><st1:place>India</st1:place></st1:country-region> and <st1:country-region><st1:place>China</st1:place></st1:country-region> for rising demand. But according to the FAO, with record grain harvests in 2007, there is more than enough food in the world to feed everyone—at least 1.5 times current demand. In fact, over the last 20 years, food production has risen steadily at over 2.0% a year, while the rate of population growth has dropped to 1.14% a year. Population is not outstripping food supply. When we see some 80% of the world’s production is consumed by the wealthiest 20% of the world suggesting an inequality in resource use due to social, economic and political reasons, and perhaps less because of Malthusian concerns about population sizes outstripping resource availability in most cases.</p> <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal">This high food prices are related with the High oil prices too. As the rise in the oil prices has heightened the costs of fertilizers, the majority of which requires petroleum or natural gases to manufacture. Oil also provides the most energy for mechanized food production and transport. Higher prices for liquid fuels from petroleum increase the demand for Biofuel, which may result in diverting some crops from food to energy. Even though per-capita petroleum consumption among the world's poorest people is very low, what petroleum the poor do consume is disproportionately in the form of fossil fuel inputs to the food they eat.</p> <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal">Another factor for high food prices is financial speculations. Financial speculation in commodity futures following the collapse of the financial derivatives markets has contributed to the crisis due to a "commodities super-cycle." Financial speculators seeking quick returns have removed trillions of dollars from equities and mortgage bonds, some of which has been invested into food and raw materials. That American commodities speculation could have a worldwide impact on food prices is reflected in the globalization of food production. As long as food is merely a commodity in societies that don't protect people's right to participate in the market, and as long as farming is left vulnerable to consolidated power off the farm, many will go hungry, farmers among them.<o:p><br /></o:p></p> <span style="">This High food prices has taken its toll more on the poor and developing nations. As we have seen in above video people in </span><st1:country-region><st1:place><span style="">Egypt</span></st1:place></st1:country-region><span style=""> are finding tough even for Bread. The poorest countries in the world like </span><st1:country-region><st1:place><span style="">Zimbabwe</span></st1:place></st1:country-region><span style=""> where inflation touches 2000000% and the area such as </span><st1:place><span style="">Darfur</span></st1:place><span style=""> which is totally dependent on UN aid for food is suffering more. Now the time has arrived to think on this issue very seriously. At last I will leave you with the Video of this food crisis in </span><st1:country-region><st1:place><span style="">Haiti</span></st1:place></st1:country-region><span style="">.<br /><br /><br /></span><iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='320' height='266' src='https://www.blogger.com/video.g?token=AD6v5dzfgISIHcoVo4i0mpA_iuWqUvtGLMeunuPu2I0UDRWcnlLmEc5Pim_S9JZljlQ3N9QwRmkKLTaCs6-O8eAOlQ' class='b-hbp-video b-uploaded' frameborder='0'></iframe><br /><br /><a href="http://www.india-blogger.com">INDIA-BLOGGER</a>Mananhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06024555690866377250noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7044509949793981215.post-19831616828256088242008-07-11T06:03:00.000-07:002008-07-12T08:45:48.419-07:00Brand in your hand, Effective way of marketing : Mobile Advertisements<p class="MsoNormal"><span style=""> </span>Chunnu, Munnu, Micheal, Andy, Farookh, Ahmed, Charlie, Sonu, Monu, Sona, Tinu...............Every body has Mobile. Even people are spending more time on their mobile than watching Television. Advertising is the communication of a signal (information) with the express purpose of gaining advantage over one’s rivals in a competitive environment. This fact leads Marketing companies to think about Advertising on <st1:city><st1:place>Mobile</st1:place></st1:City>. There are many companies working on Mobile Advertising. Current Mobile Advertisement market is above 3 Billion and Expected to cross 4 billion by the year end. In <st1:country-region><st1:place>Spain</st1:place></st1:country-region> 75% of mobile phone owners receive ads, in <st1:country-region><st1:place>France</st1:place></st1:country-region> 62% and in <st1:country-region><st1:place>Japan</st1:place></st1:country-region> 54%.<o:p><br /></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style=""> </span>The most common way of Advertising on <st1:city><st1:place>Mobile</st1:place></st1:City> is to send SMS which says about the product. But here problem is that you can not send advertisements to the targeted Segment for whom this product is useful. But now a day’s user involvement in this advertising has increased, in <st1:country-region><st1:place>Japan</st1:place></st1:country-region> 44% user’s click on these Ads. And now SMS advertising generates around 90% of total Mobile Advertising. One advantage of SMS is that while even in conference, the users are able receive brief messages unobtrusively, while enjoying privacy. The first case of advertising would appear via SMS, when a Finnish news provider offered free news headlines, sponsored by advertising. Now a days SMS marketing is taking new turn, companies using VIRAL MARKETING. In this company will send SMS to one subscriber and when this subscriber forward this message to some one else he become part of this Advertising campaign and his mobile service provider pays him some reward. This way it becomes interactive.</p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style=""> </span>After the evolution of SMS the new thing came was MMS(Multi Media Messaging Service). Now a day’s companies are sending their advertisements through MMS. This MMS clips are becoming popular day by day as it has small act with sound which creates an impact on people's mind.</p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style=""> </span>Day by day mobile phones are becoming very popular and people are using mobile phones with WAP/Web browser. This makes marketing companies job easy to provide advertising on WAP/Web browser. This is either in the form of Mobile Web banner (Top of Page) or Mobile Web poster (Bottom of page banner). So on your mobile screens half of the screen is advertisement and on other part you check your websites this way you can not ignore advertisements which is very important. Even while browsing on mobile marketing companies do not want waste even a small space so Advertisement appears while a requested item of mobile content or mobile web page is loading up. This is called as 'Full Screen Interstices'.</p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style=""> </span>People are spending more and more time on Mobiles calling someone or SMSing but one more activity is taking serious space ion mobile world is Gaming on <st1:city><st1:place>Mobile</st1:place></st1:City>. Which prompt marketing companies to provide advertisements during games. The most popular example is game Jump. Jump is a fruit drink and with its name we have a game which is very popular and many <st1:city><st1:place>Mobile</st1:place></st1:City> operators are providing this for free. Even in India ITC has used <st1:place>Mobile</st1:place> gaming to market their new product 'BINGO'. This is very useful to create impact on people’s mind. </p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style=""> </span>In place of normal tring tring when someone calls you operators have started providing Caller Tunes which is usually consist of song or dialogue. Which creates one more way for marketing companies is that instead of filmy song or dialogue you have Advertisement. This is called as AdTPT. So whenever any one calls you he can here Advertisement. To subscribe for this service mobile service provider may pay. This is a new concept which is not famous among marketing companies.<o:p><br /></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style=""> </span>But the question is people really gets attract with such marketing. The way Marketing companies are trying to provide as many advertisements on <st1:city><st1:place>Mobile</st1:place></st1:City> we can say the Next big thing is 'MOBILE ADVERTISING'.</p>Mananhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06024555690866377250noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7044509949793981215.post-84442097553100003132008-07-06T10:19:00.000-07:002008-07-07T20:24:44.771-07:00SO WILL THIS OIL PRICES COME DOWN?<p class="MsoNormal">This is the question everyone asking. Will this Oil prices come down? Will we be able to live our life normally? And for that answer is YES, but when will it happen no body can predict this as Solution for lowering oil prices lies in the reason of higher oil prices. Let’s see how this reason helps us to lowering oil prices.<o:p><br /></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style=""> </span><st1:country-region><st1:place>India</st1:place></st1:country-region>, <st1:country-region><st1:place>China</st1:place></st1:country-region>, experiencing economy growth but it does not mean that current oil production is lagging in supplying oil. Infect <st1:country-region><st1:place>Iran</st1:place></st1:country-region> says that they have lots of oil and they have question where to store this oil? it means Their is no supply problem. Current oil production is sufficient to provide oil on time and with its full capacity.<o:p><br /></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style=""> </span>So what is the problem in lowering Oil prices? It's Speculations in Commodity market. After the <st1:country-region><st1:place>US</st1:place></st1:country-region> economy crisis Investors in US started investing in Oil commodity to recover their loss from Equity market. And they started rumors of less supply, taking oil calls on higher rate and when purchase increased price of Oil also increased. but The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) is investigating the activity commonly referred to as the "Enron Loophole" - under current law, US traders can execute transactions in look-alike contracts in crude oil contracts on the New York Mercantile Exchange (Nymex) and on London's Intercontinental Exchange (ICE), while the US regulators have oversight only on what goes on Nymex - traders are arbitraging between the two markets while the CFTC regulates only half of the trading. The <st1:city><st1:place>London</st1:place></st1:City> / Durbin legislation would give the CFTC the ability to exercise power over manipulation, speculation and record-keeping by US citizens and instruct US regulators to assess the foreign regulator's ability to apply comparable regulatory principles prior to granting relief from <st1:country-region><st1:place>US</st1:place></st1:country-region> regulatory requirements. Similarly, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission's action would condition access to US customers on the Intercontinental Exchange's adoption of position limits and accountability levels on the West Texas Intermediate contract. Now this CFTC's report is due by September. If this is just a speculation we can hope that oil prices will start coming down from September.<o:p><br /></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style=""> </span>Even in November US has their General Elections due so we can hope that after this elections new government in Us will take some actions in taming this crisis. And we can hope it will help in strengthening Dollar again and it will help lowering Oil prices.<o:p><br /></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style=""> </span>These General elections will help lowering speculations about Oil politics. As Bush will leave White house and with whom Venezuela president have a personal problem and the current government does not like Iran's stand on their Nuclear testing and this is not allowing OPEC countries to reach at one conclusion for taming oil prices. Now this General Election might help resolving these issues.<o:p><br /></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style=""> </span>At the same moment countries like <st1:country-region><st1:place>India</st1:place></st1:country-region> are taking steps towards discovering new Oil fields. Cairn <st1:country-region><st1:place>India</st1:place></st1:country-region> has discovered new Oil field in Mangala Badmer, Rajasthan. So by <st1:country-region><st1:place>India</st1:place></st1:country-region> has two oil fields Bombay High and Mangala which will help <st1:country-region><st1:place>India</st1:place></st1:country-region> in fighting against this oil price rise.<o:p><br /></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style=""> </span>Now with all this issues and the solution for lowering oil prices we can hope Oil prices will come down and we can live our lives back to normal. As this High oil prices has caused high Inflation. Now only thing we can keep is hope.</p>Mananhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06024555690866377250noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7044509949793981215.post-57356886621838862102008-07-05T23:34:00.001-07:002008-08-11T01:43:40.616-07:00Oil - It’s HOT: Why?<p class="MsoNormal"><st1:date month="6" day="30" year="2008">June 30 2008</st1:date>, $141 at 9.30, $141.35 at 9.35, $142 at 10.00AM and now $143. What is all this? Do not stress your mind this is not a game but this is the price for 'Black gold - OIL'. Many of we know that oil prices are surging up in spite of increasing output from <st1:country-region><st1:place>Saudi Arabia</st1:place></st1:country-region>. So the question comes why this oil prices are going up? Is their any black market is working for this or is it just a bubble which can burst any moment? Let’s see what the reasons for this high Oil prices are?<o:p><br /></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style=""> </span>Before go into details lets first look at some figures which will clearly shows what is happening with the<span style=""> </span>market.<o:p><br /></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style=""> </span>Oil $10 (12/98)<br /><span style=""> </span>$68 (7/2007)<br /><span style=""> </span>$143.67 (<st1:date month="6" day="30" year="2008">June 30 2008</st1:date>)</p> <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p><span style=""> </span>In last 1 year crude prices are suddenly doubled. There is no. of reasons for this. Let’s see all this reasons one by one.<o:p><br /></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style=""> </span>World is progressing. Countries which were in a development phase now on the verge of changing their status from Developing to Developed, Big economies to bigger Economies. Countries like <st1:country-region><st1:place>China</st1:place></st1:country-region>, <st1:country-region><st1:place>India</st1:place></st1:country-region>, <st1:country-region><st1:place>Brazil</st1:place></st1:country-region>, and <st1:country-region><st1:place>Russia</st1:place></st1:country-region> are on a high. Economy is booming and with that consumption is increasing too. Countries like <st1:country-region><st1:place>China</st1:place></st1:country-region> and <st1:country-region><st1:place>India</st1:place></st1:country-region> requires more oil then the usual and so the demand goes up. And it is very important to increase oil production. But it is not happening at this moment.<o:p><br /></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style=""> </span>when demand is high black marketing starts. This has really created a chance for storing oil and makes some money by increasing prices. Last year in US when people understood this situation started investing in Oil futures. They started storing Oil and selling those at higher rate. This suddenly increased price. At the same time US sub prime problem came up and companies started making big loss. Big investment firm saw scope in oil commodity market and started investing in that. They started selling Equities and started purchasing Oil futures which took Oil prices further up. Currently so many Investors are investing in oil futures and still prices are going up.<o:p><br /></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style=""> </span>Third reason for this is that <st1:country-region><st1:place>US</st1:place></st1:country-region> economy is not doing well and value for dollar is decreasing. If dollar value decreases further oil prices still go up. If we check oil prices in Euro it is not changing that much, it is quite stable. And this problem remains their till we price oil in dollar.<o:p><br /></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style=""> </span>And this is the main cause for oil politics. Countries in OPEC like <st1:country-region><st1:place>Iran</st1:place></st1:country-region> do not like US's super power status. They are not happy with <st1:place><st1:placename>United</st1:placename> <st1:placetype>State</st1:placetype></st1:place>’s view on them. <st1:country-region><st1:place>Iran</st1:place></st1:country-region> has a good amount of oil with them. And there are some oil producing countries like <st1:country-region><st1:place>Venezuela</st1:place></st1:country-region> faces personal differences with Us government. OPEC is body of producing countries. They keep certain limit on oil production. They all know about oil price problem in the world but because of their differences with US, some countries in OPEC are not allowing to increase oil output extensively to bring down oil prices. <st1:country-region><st1:place>Iran</st1:place></st1:country-region> and other OPEC countries are suggesting that the valuation of Oil should not be calculated in Dollar other currency take its place. And because of this they are not allowing to bring down Oil prices.<o:p><br /></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style=""> </span>At the same time world is gearing up for biggest sports meet, OLYMPICS in <st1:country-region><st1:place>China</st1:place></st1:country-region>. It is expected that their will be millions of spectators arrive in <st1:country-region><st1:place>China</st1:place></st1:country-region> for this event. Now, black marketers are waiting to take advantage of this situation. They will not allow Oil prices to calm down easily.<o:p><br /></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style=""> </span>With this we should hope that Oil prices should come down so people can relax. They can enjoy their lives. But <span style="text-transform: uppercase;">will this</span> OIL PRICES COME DOWN? </p><br /><script type="text/javascript"><!--<br />google_ad_client = "pub-8613860175841403";<br />/* vigraha */<br />google_ad_slot = "7426361742";<br />google_ad_width = 728;<br />google_ad_height = 90;<br />//--><br /></script><br /><script type="text/javascript"<br />src="http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js"><br /></script>Mananhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06024555690866377250noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7044509949793981215.post-65556049609553564942008-07-01T06:27:00.000-07:002008-07-01T06:29:34.212-07:00India to INDIA: The Pokhran way<p class="MsoNormal"><span style=""> </span>11 May 1998 the historic day when <st1:country-region><st1:place>India</st1:place></st1:country-region> held first Nuclear Missile Test. And again on <st1:date month="5" day="13" year="1998">13 May 1998</st1:date> 2 more tests held. These tests made every Indian proud. Now <st1:country-region><st1:place>India</st1:place></st1:country-region> is a Nuclear Super Power. Now we are secured that no country in the world that has nuclear missile will attack <st1:country-region><st1:place>India</st1:place></st1:country-region>. Every Indian was happy. But at the same world fraternity was aghast by thinking that even <st1:country-region><st1:place>India</st1:place></st1:country-region> has nuclear missile. US and European nations have condemned these tests as their authority of developing Nuclear weapons broke. They broke relationships with <st1:country-region><st1:place>India</st1:place></st1:country-region>. We were in a fizzy condition as we have started developing in the same 1990's and in few years such a big problem arises. All economists have predicted that <st1:country-region><st1:place>India</st1:place></st1:country-region> will not sustain their growth and economy started loosing. Every coin has two sides and this was one side of the coin, the other side was as shining as the Sun.</p> <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style=""> </span>In the year 1947 <st1:country-region><st1:place>India</st1:place></st1:country-region> got its <st1:city><st1:place>Independence</st1:place></st1:City> and then we started a new chapter towards prosperity. But during those early years Indian economy was not doing well as <st1:country-region><st1:place>India</st1:place></st1:country-region> being a Secular nation having communist thinking. We have never thought that globalization will help <st1:country-region><st1:place>India</st1:place></st1:country-region> to earn a respect economically. In early 1990's we opened our economy and stepped towards Globalization. But after 1998 when the powerful countries restricted their business with India Indian economy has started to look beyond these countries. <st1:country-region><st1:place>India</st1:place></st1:country-region> developed very good bilateral relations with <st1:country-region><st1:place>China</st1:place></st1:country-region>. Currently <st1:country-region><st1:place>China</st1:place></st1:country-region> is <st1:country-region><st1:place>India</st1:place></st1:country-region>'s second largest Business Partner. <st1:country-region><st1:place>India</st1:place></st1:country-region> helped African nations and developed and maintained good relations with them. Because of the restriction in business from powerful countries, <st1:country-region><st1:place>India</st1:place></st1:country-region> looked beyond them and earned a lot of respect from these countries in business and foreign policies. This made India Independent in economy from these powerful countries. <st1:country-region><st1:place>India</st1:place></st1:country-region> showed way to other small countries that if big and powerful nations are not taking your note look for alternatives, make your economy strong by encouraging students for further studies, encourage researchers, encourage Entrepreneurs and take your country on a next level.</p> <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style=""> </span>World noticed <st1:country-region><st1:place>India</st1:place></st1:country-region>'s progress. <st1:country-region><st1:place>India</st1:place></st1:country-region> encouraged their entrepreneurs and they started manufacturing products which were very rarely manufactured in <st1:country-region><st1:place>India</st1:place></st1:country-region>. And then came the IT revolution. Information Technology brought <st1:country-region><st1:place>India</st1:place></st1:country-region> on a world map of developing nations. Today <st1:country-region><st1:place>India</st1:place></st1:country-region> is an IT hub. <st1:city><st1:place>Bangalore</st1:place></st1:City> became a big IT Hub. Even oxford had taken a note of <st1:city><st1:place>Bangalore</st1:place></st1:City> and added a word as 'BANGLORED' in their next Dictionary edition. This is a great achievement. During these years World has taken a note of <st1:country-region><st1:place>India</st1:place></st1:country-region> not as a country but as a developing Super power. This is not because of the IT revolution or population or bull market but because of its strength to believe in his ability as a country, its people and their thinking foresight ness to look beyond something. And this all happened because of Pokhran Nuclear Test. That day <st1:country-region><st1:place>India</st1:place></st1:country-region> was proud and the next day world condemned nuclear test which we tested for our own security. And then <st1:country-region><st1:place>India</st1:place></st1:country-region> started its Run and we feel proud that we are in this country where you get chance to think big. </p> <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style=""> </span>1857 is in base for Indian Independence and the same way we can say nuclear tests are in the base of <st1:country-region><st1:place>India</st1:place></st1:country-region>'s Economic independence. These tests helped us to find our strength and opportunity on which we can work. JAI HIND.</p>Mananhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06024555690866377250noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7044509949793981215.post-69205818501031973652008-06-28T11:15:00.000-07:002008-06-28T11:18:30.536-07:00Is SENSEX heading towards 11000?SENSEX crashes 600 points. SENSEX is down 2% last week and even today it crashed. So do we heading to 11000? Answer for this may be YES. but why when Investors in the world are still bullish on India. Economist says India is shining. So why we think SENSEX is going down? Their are many reasons for this.<br /><br /> One of them is Global crisis. US economy is really in a slump. With US, European economies are not doing well. In India, Maximum investment is coming from US. When US is doing well they need money to keep them up their. just 6 months back US investors have invested $20 billion in Indian market. As we see US economy is open so money rotation is very high. If a small investor looses money it affects all who comes in his contact. so if one investor makes loss in US market he needs to recover his money from some other market and Indian market is the market which has shown fantastic movement and he will recover his money from Indian market and he sell millions of shares. Which creates panic in small investors in India and they will start selling their Shares and which affects Market badly.<br /><br /> The other reason for SENSEX loss is Global Crude prices. As this prices are surging up Inflation rises which results in high CRR and High repo rates which increases loan rates in the market which reduces profitability for companies. Which creates pressure in the market. Prices of this company shares are going down and investors start selling which brings SENSEX down.<br /><br /> Other reason for this SENSEX going down is very strange and when we think its obvious. When crude prices are surging up People start investing in Commodities such as crude. To invest in crude the investment require is 6Lakhs for 100 bbl. If we take 5% profit on this it will make 30000. And in these condition profit of 30000 is good. So investors start investing in crude and selling Equities. Which results in negative trend as far as the SENSEX is concern.<br /><br /> So it means SENSEX will surge further and it will reach 11000? Answer is NO. Reason is that, India is still shining. If we check last year foreign investment has gone up by $4 billion. Investors are bullish on Indian Economy. As fundamentals of Companies in India are very good. Majority of the companies are making profit in such crisis conditions. and this very good sign for the economy. Yes their profitability got low but still they are doing good then their counterparts in other part of the world. RBI and government is still saying that we will achieve 8% growth so this means it is a very good sign for the Economy and SENSEX.Mananhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06024555690866377250noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7044509949793981215.post-1394267116167713232008-06-27T07:29:00.000-07:002008-06-28T11:15:50.150-07:00Are we heading towards 1929 Global Crisis?Morning 7.00 Manan Wake up and walk towards the main door to take News Paper. This is his daily routine. He take brush, while cleaning his teeth he reads paper. Today he feels like not to clean his teeth because of the news he read. News were,<br /><br />Unemployment in US increased drastically to 10 years high.<br />Inflation in the world increases. In India it touches 13 year high to 11%.<br />Oil Prices are surging high to set a new record to $140/bbl.<br /><br />This was a story of one person who belongs to Middle class and know what this means. Now a days we usually read this stories daily in news papers. News papers compare this crisis those with the 1929 global crisis. Do we are heading towards it? or this are worst then those? Do we able to come out of it? The answers are NO and Yes. No as we are not heading towards 1929 crisis. Yes as we will be able to come out of it.How we can say this crisis are not worst then 1929? The reason for this is that,<br /> After World War - I almost every country in the world were in debt except US as they had not taken active roll in WW-I. After WW-I US was the only strong economy in the world. So when US economy went downwards there were no other country in the world who can support US to come out of it. Many countries in the world were dependent on US for supplies. and because of this reason crisis got worst.<br /> But today the scenario is different. Still today US is Super Power but there are many Developing economies such as China, India, Brazil. Few years back their was only US who was teaching the world how to survive but today the countries like are teaching others how to survive in such critical countries. Few days back a meeting was held between 4 Noble prize winner Economist and every body has appreciated developing countries like India for their role in curbing this Inflation. Today US is not alone to fight with this crisis but their are many countries who are able to fight with Inflation.<br /><br />If we want to survive from this crisis, we need more super power countries who can help other countries to progress. To achieve this developing countries like India, China, Brazil have to come strong and need to break US power. with this they are helping US to run world economy with out such crisis as in US this is 4th time they are facing crisis in 20 years which makes world economy less effective. To achieve high growth rate developing countries should work hard.Mananhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06024555690866377250noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7044509949793981215.post-50760804829242630182008-06-25T10:34:00.000-07:002008-06-25T23:49:22.634-07:00How to package solution for each market?<p class="MsoNormal">Packaging is very important aspect of any Solution or Product. Packaging makes product look better. But often we think if Packaging is so important then we should always make it perfect? and it is worth to invest more amount of money on packaging? Here the question comes How to package Solution or Product for each market?<br /></p><p class="MsoNormal">When ever you are packaging your solution you should always look for the market environment. This is the most important step for packaging your product and to understand how we can manage our cost for Packaging.<br />In other words if you know what is people's mentality in the market or their spending style you can package your solution in a different way as effective as it can be.<br /></p><p class="MsoNormal">Take example of Sauce bottle. for packaging of a Sauce we require a bottle and a bottle nob. Here how we can manage our money in packaging this. Lets say when we sell Sauce bottle to a customer we can find out what is his usage. Say he is purchasing bottle for Hotel than we can say Threading on bottle and its nob is not required. Threading does not take much of glass or plastic but what ever we can save we should do it. But in all conditions it is not useful. For this we should check what are the Market conditions. What is people's mentality on spending.</p><p class="MsoNormal"> If you take US as a market, people mentality here is that they usually don't care for packaging. They usually check the Solution or a Product they are buying is solving their purpose or not. And in US people usually purchase with plastic money so they don't care much about the pricing, and its external packaging. But at the same moment you take whole <st1:place>Europe</st1:place> as a Market you see a complete opposite mentality on spending their money. Here people always look for value. Value is not the price but its use, appearance are worth for its price or not. and here packaging of a solution is always important in it value. So here Packaging is very important.<br />Now if you take <st1:country-region><st1:place>India</st1:place></st1:country-region> as a market you will find condition here is completely different than US and <st1:place>Europe</st1:place>. In <st1:country-region><st1:place>India</st1:place></st1:country-region> people usually do not believe on new product much. In <st1:country-region><st1:place>India</st1:place></st1:country-region> people usually purchase on trust. <span style="font-weight: bold;">In India Trust building is much more important than Brand building</span>. If your solution is very much useful for people then definitely people will buy. But at the same time you need to concentrate on specific customers. As mentality in Urban India and Rural India is different. take example of same Sauce. When you sell your Sauce in Urban India Where people are forward they usually go for Glass bottle for Sauce rather then Plastic bottle. And in Rural India people will buy plastic bottle as they think This are rigid and unbreakable. If someone purchase Sauce for more then one usages They will think that bottle should have thread so that we can close bottle properly. But in India scenario is completely different in India if you create enough trust for your brand then people will buy your product with out looking at its packaging. Example is Kissan Sauce. They have 2 different bottles for bigger bottle they have thread on their bottle as well as on its nob. but for the smaller bottle which people buy for multiple uses does not have thread. This way they are cutting on extra cost. and this is most important thing in an Industry. How you can increase your profit. and profit of 1 Rupee or 1000 Rupees. Profit is always Profit.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:times;" >My take on this question is you should always look for the market before packaging the solution. Market survey is very important before packaging as it may help in cutting your costs.</span></p>Mananhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06024555690866377250noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7044509949793981215.post-72091075296376246342008-06-25T10:17:00.000-07:002008-06-25T10:29:00.768-07:00VigrahaWhen we see the title of this blog as Vigraha the obvious question comes to our mind that what is Vigraha? Vigraha is the process of breaking a complex topic or substance into smaller parts to gain a better understanding of it.in a more common language we say it as an <span style="font-family: courier new; font-weight: bold;">Analysis</span>. yes Analysis. Now the obvious question is how you define Vigraha with Analysis. When we check Sanskrit dictionary we will find that Vigraha has a different meanings such as Body, Expansion, Form, Shape.<br />Vigraha is to Expand certain Body in form or a shape which is useful to understand that Body. Start with Vigraha. <span style="font-weight: bold;">Vigraha = Vi + Graha</span> i.e. the substance or a body divided in different form and when we join this different form together we will come to a conclusion about this body. And of course Vigraha also means Conclusion.<br /><br />This is my first blog in which I have Analyzed what the name of the blog means. <span style="font-weight: bold;">VIGRAHA</span>.Mananhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06024555690866377250noreply@blogger.com0