date:May 18, 2012
y. In fact, if the modern retail chains or supermarkets link farmers to markets, it will serve as an additional/alternate market channel which can benefit the farmers in realising higher returns through increased competitiveness. The core strength of the organised retail players lies in their capacity to expand the market which appears to be advantageous to unorganised producerfarmers.
Contrarily, the argument against FDI is mainly related to the future survival of the unorganised sector. The