The 40-day threshold is the number every FMCG procurement team should have circled right now. Once the Middle East conflict crosses that mark and input costs remain elevated, the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) warns that farmers will begin cutting inputs, reducing plantings, or shifting to less fertiliser-intensive crops — decisions that will echo … Read more
Bio-based spandex has been positioned as a sustainability option for years. Moving the feedstock from corn to sugarcane — and backing that shift with a $1 billion fully integrated production commitment — is where the concept stops being aspirational and starts being a supply chain decision for mills. Hyosung TNC is presenting those developments at … Read more
In Pala taluk of Kottayam district, a 58-year-old rubber tapper named Thankachan rolls a sheet of smoked rubber between his fingers and shakes his head. The price he received last month — approximately ₹155 per kilogram — barely covers his cost of production. Five years ago, it was ₹180. Meanwhile, Thai RSS-3 grade rubber lands … Read more
In Veraval’s crowded fish auction yard in Junagadh district, a kilogram of locally caught ribbonfish fetched ₹85 last monsoon season. Three years ago, the same fish commanded ₹140. I spoke to cooperative members along this stretch of Gujarat who told me the culprit isn’t overfishing or a bad season — it’s containers of frozen Chinese … Read more
India’s cooperative movement is one of the largest in the world, touching the lives of over 290 million members spread across more than 800,000 cooperative societies. Behind this vast network, state cooperative federations serve as the backbone, coordinating activities between primary societies and national-level apex bodies. I’ve put together a detailed resource covering these federations, … Read more
At 6,200 feet above sea level, in the mist-wrapped slopes above Coonoor, a 62-year-old Toda tribal woman named Lakshmi picks the season’s second flush of orthodox tea — two leaves and a bud, repeated hundreds of times before noon. Two decades ago, a private buyer would have paid her roughly ₹8 per kilogram of green … Read more
A 98% disclosure compliance rate sounds like a bureaucratic milestone, but for the Abu Dhabi Securities Exchange, it signals something far more deliberate about where the capital market is headed. When nearly every listed company files on time and collective profits surge past AED 200 billion, the numbers start to tell a governance story that … Read more
In Sanosara village, Mehsana district, Gujarat, a farmer named Rameshbhai Patel poured 400 litres of buffalo milk daily into his local cooperative collection centre last winter. His annual household income from milk alone crossed ₹18 lakh — a figure that would have seemed absurd to his father, who sold milk to a private middleman for … Read more
Twenty-eight new weekly flights to five Chinese cities is not a cautious bet. For Etihad Airways, it is a declaration that the airline intends to close the gap on rivals who have owned the China-Gulf corridor for years. The Abu Dhabi-based carrier plans to expand its mainland China operations to 35 weekly services spanning six … Read more
The perimenopause supplement aisle used to be a dusty corner of the pharmacy, avoided by mainstream retailers and largely ignored by serious FMCG investment. When commercially sharp consumer entrepreneurs start backing the category publicly, something structural has shifted. Pip Edwards, co-founder of activewear label P.E Nation and one of the more commercially literate voices in … Read more
