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Boxed Emotions: Packaging for the Eco Generation

What Gen Z Really Wants in Packaging: More Than Just a Box Packaging today is no longer just a protective wrapper, it’s a storyteller, a sustainability statement, and a silent sale

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Manifesting a Better Bharat with AI

Sanjay Mehta

India today stands at the threshold of a histo

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Gold’s enduring value for global economy

Sanjay Mehta

Gold has been a cornerstone of the global economy for centuries, serving as a store of value, a medium of exchange, and a hedge against financial uncertainty. While no longer the offici

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Caution warranted in current bullion market

G. CHANDRASHEKHAR, Advisor, ERTF

Gold and silver prices have reached record levels in the international market. Gold recently cro

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Changing Crop Choices: Why Indian Farmers Are Moving Away from Cotton and Oilseeds in 2025

Krishna Shah

According to a report by the Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare, the total area sown under Kharif crops until September 26, 2025, has reached 112.073 crore hectares. This represents an incre

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Production Outlook for Key Kharif 2025 Crops

G. CHANDRASHEKHAR, Advisor, IMC-ERTF

IMC-ERTF (Economic Research and Training Foundation) is pleased to announce it Kharif 2025 crop production outlook following the gradual withdrawal of southwest monsoon. The report is resear

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The Indian Manufacturing MSME Paradox: Backbone Without a Growth Spine

Sanket Kapadnis, Founder, ThinkSDG Advisors

IntroductionIndia’s manufacturing MSMEs are the quiet workhorses of the economy. They contribute roughly 30% to GDP and account for nearly half of the country’s

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Five mega trends set to drive commodities

G. CHANDRASHEKHAR, Advisor, ERTF

It is well recognized that India’s growth over the next two decades or so will be largely driven by a variety of commodities including energy products (conventional and non-conventional), metals (i

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Wheat: not by MSP alone

G. CHANDRASHEKHAR, Advisor, IMC-ERTF

What will the hike in minimum support price (MSP) for wheat for crop year 2025-26 (marketing year 2026-27) approved by the Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs achieve?
For the upcoming harvest

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How to Measure Sustainability

G. Chandrashekhar

The earth’s risk profile is changing. Global warming / Climate change is now a recognized real risk to human welfare. The world has taken cognizance of this risk.Across the world, policymakers, busin

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GCCs can help build resilience against uncertainty

G. Chandrashekhar

The world is currently going through VUCA conditions – volatility, uncertainty, complexity and ambiguity. Multiple headwinds buffet the world and create unprecedented and unforeseen turbulence. Slowi

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Reimagining GCCs: Building India’s Resilience against Tariffs and Layoffs

India is facing a dual disruption: exporters struggling under steep tariffs and IT professionals experiencing layoffs despite record industry profits. Though from different worlds, both share a commo

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Unlocking the Potential of FPOs to Achieve Food & Fibre Security for India

Manish Daga

India’s journey toward food and fibre security is at a critical juncture. With over 6.5 million cotton farmers and millions more engaged in food crops, the stakes have never been higher. Climate chan

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When dependency becomes vulnerability

G. Chandrashekhar

Trump’s 50 percent tariff (basic 25% plus additional 25%) on Indian exports to the US has generated panic not only within the government circles but also in labour intensive export sectors like texti

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Trump threatens India with punitive tariff for buying Russian oil

G. Chandrashekhar

India is facing a double whammy from the US President Donald Trump despite the fact that the two countries are currently negotiating a bilateral trade agreement intended to achieve ambitious outcomes

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Unilateral Tariff Imposition of 25% by President Donald Trump, USA

Mr. Suresh Kotak

IMC-ERTF a quick research response has made a brief preliminary observation of the Unilateral and additional Ad Valorem Tariff Duty @ 25% form 1st Aug’25. This measure additionally compounded by pena

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India should tie up with the US for critical minerals

G. Chandrashekhar

The proposed India-USA Bilateral Trade Agreement (BTA) is still under intense negotiation. While, it is widely believed the US is keen to open up India’s farm sector (soybean cotton, corn, chicken le

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For Vietnam, India can be a reliable partner

G. Chandrashekhar

At the recently concluded Asia Agri Food Conference in Ho Chi Min City, several ideas to cement India Vietnam partnership in the area of agriculture and agribusiness came to the fore.The remarkable g

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India’s steel sector: are we ready for the big leap?

G. Chandrashekhar

Steel is a critical industrial metal for growth and development of several sectors including infrastructure, construction, defense, mobility and so on. No wonder, there is a strong positive correlati

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Modernizing-cotton cultivation through tech infusion is imperative

G. Chandrashekhar

Cotton is an important cash crop for our country. It is not merely an agricultural crop but an industrial commodity too as it has multiple uses, food and non-food. Cotton represents 5F – Fibre, Food,

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Contours of India UK FTA set to boost economic opportunities

G. Chandrashekhar

After over three years of negotiations that began in January 2022, the India-UK Free Trade Agreement (FTA) was recently concluded and formally announced on May 6, 2025. Yet, there is a road ahead to

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USA – India BTA and scenario of possible outcomes

G. Chandrashekhar

The US faces the problem of ‘twin deficit’ that is fiscal deficit and trade deficit. The policy of free trade or liberal import – intended to support consumers – has resulted in trade deficit.Over th

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The Present and Future of AI

Raj Nair

Have you heard of Gemma 3, Sec- Gemini v1, DeepSeek, Gemini 2.0, etc.? Don’t worry because more 95% of the people around you have not heard of about these AI models, let alone know anything about the

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Trump, Tariffs, Tradewar and Turmoil

The much-awaited US reciprocal tariffs announced on April 2 have jolted the world with a few countries in Asia becoming the target of Trump ire (China, Vietnam, Thailand) while the blow to India is r

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The Allure of Glittering Gold

Background: In pursuance of the decision to run blogs on topical subjects, ERTF chose Gold Market as the subject that could potentially elicit interesting yet different shades of opinion from domain

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Boxed Emotions: Packaging for the Eco Generation

Manifesting a Better Bharat with AI

Gold’s enduring value for global economy

Caution warranted in current bullion market

Changing Crop Choices: Why Indian Farmers Are Moving Away from Cotton and Oilseeds in 2025

Production Outlook for Key Kharif 2025 Crops

The Indian Manufacturing MSME Paradox: Backbone Without a Growth Spine

Five mega trends set to drive commodities

Wheat: not by MSP alone

How to Measure Sustainability

GCCs can help build resilience against uncertainty

Reimagining GCCs: Building India’s Resilience against Tariffs and Layoffs

Unlocking the Potential of FPOs to Achieve Food & Fibre Security for India

When dependency becomes vulnerability

Trump threatens India with punitive tariff for buying Russian oil

Unilateral Tariff Imposition of 25% by President Donald Trump, USA

India should tie up with the US for critical minerals

For Vietnam, India can be a reliable partner

India’s steel sector: are we ready for the big leap?

Modernizing-cotton cultivation through tech infusion is imperative

Contours of India UK FTA set to boost economic opportunities

USA – India BTA and scenario of possible outcomes

The Present and Future of AI

Trump, Tariffs, Tradewar and Turmoil

The Allure of Glittering Gold