Coverage Appeared. Month Article Target Publication Status Date Smart Agri Post Appeared May 30, Coverage Pending

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1 NCDEX COVERAGE DOSSIER MAY 2018

2 Coverage Appeared Month Article Target Publication Status Date Smart Agri Post Appeared May 30, 2018 May Synergy of Collectivisation and Innovation to Magnify the Voices of Farmers NCDEX Educates Farmers on Commodity Markets in 47th IFFCO AGM Gujarat Samachar Appeared May 14, 2018 PhulChhab Appeared May 14, 2018 Business Remedies Appeared May 16, 2018 Nafa Nuksan Appeared May 25, 2018 Seema Sandesh Appeared May 25, 2018 Business Remedies Appeared May 25, 2018 Date Line Gujarat Appeared May 24, 2018 (Online) Coverage Pending Month Article Target Publication Synergy of Collectivisation and Innovation to Magnify the Voices of Farmers Dainik Jagaran Pioneer Daily Post Commodity World May-June The COCUD Story and the Victory of Jamwa Ramgarh Rajasthan Patrika Nafa Nuksan Dainik Navjyoti The Times of India Commodity World Dainik Bhaskar

3 Coverage: 1 Publication: Gujarat Samachar Date: May 14, 2018 Coverage Brief: With continuous challenges farmers, especially the small and marginal farmers are on the verge of becoming weaker in the market. Government has come up with many schemes and initiative to support the farmers and announces many schemes like doubling farmer s income by 2022 and increase of MSP up to 1.5 times. Government has also started many campaigns for better price realization to farmers by connecting physical markets with futures markets. E-NAM and electronic market platforms are also being developed to offer setup to farmers by which they can sale their agri produce from village area direct through electronic platform. Leading agri commodity futures exchange like NCDEX has also taken initiatives to increase farmer s participation in commodity market and introduced hedging instruments like futures and options. New generation of farmer s community is also familiar with smart phone and electronic platform. So, procurement of agriculture produce through electronic platform becomes easier, which will play a lead role in increasing farmer s income. 74,500 farmers across the nation have earned better price realization through electronic platform till 31, March-2018, says NCDEX report. This numbers will increase in coming days. NCDEX is also planning to launch national commodity clearing house very soon, which will bring more transparency in futures market. About the publication: Gujarat Samachar is a Gujarati language daily newspaper in India. It is a leading Gujarati newspaper in the Indian states of Gujarat and Maharashtra with circulation figure of 46, 42,000. Headquartered in Ahmedabad, this publication editions from Ahmedabad, Vadodara, Surat, Rajkot, Bhavnagar, Mumbai, Mehsana, Bhuj and New York City. Coverage Link: 14&pageno=7

4 Coverage: 2 Coverage Brief Publication: PhulChhab Date: May 14, 2018 Headline: FPO can double farmer s income Though the Modi government has shown keen interest and commitment for overall progress and doubling farmer s income by 2022, we all have to contribute to make this goal a success. The average annual income of a farmer is merely Rs /- per year, that means hardly 50 Rs on daily basis. It was a time when India was facing shortage of recourses to produce self-sufficient food grain, and middle men were used to buy agriculture produce at very cheaper rates from farmers and sell it to retailer and consumer at higher rates with huge profit of margin. The scenario has changed, and we have been producing record food grains since last two/three years and rates of agriculture produce remains low. The government has also announced various schemes and initiatives to educate and aware the farmers about agri eco system. One should remember that income of organized sector employees has been increased after implementation of 7th pay commission. But our farmers and farm workers are still not benefited. High

5 production, loan waiver schemes, merely announcement of MSP, our distribution system and political lobbing is responsible for this situation. We have seen double digit that means more than 10 % increase in MSP during 2009 to But after that we have seen just 3.7% rise in MSP since 2014 to But yes we should appreciate that the government has started procurement at MSP in some states. But this measure was also not enough for achieving be larger goal as farmers were forced to wait for procurement, and in many cases till new season start. One unique way to offer better price realization to farmers is to connect them directly to corporates or online commodity exchanges, but the problem remains is, the quantity. Small farmers do not have such quantity to sell on platform or to corporates, So FPOs are the best alternatives to sort this problem. The commodity exchanges like NCDEX has taken various initiatives to connect FPOs with platform. This initiative is also supported by the Government and has encouraged this idea in budget Opening of rural haats, up gradation of 585 market yards and allocation of Rs.500 crores for development of agriculture logistics are some of them. The exchanges are also offering half rates and early paying facility to FPOs, which encourages FPOs to participate on online platforms. So, steps have been initiated, and it just needed to be used in honest way by all, traders, processors, industrialists and FPOs. About the publication: Phulchhab is the Gujarati daily published from Rajkot, Gujarat, India. This publication has more than 5,00,000 readers all over the region and its circulation is 84,000 copies.

6 Coverage: 3 Publication: Business Remedies Date: May 16, 2018 About the publication: Business Remedies is a daily Hindi newspaper published from Jaipur. The newspaper provides latest stock market, financial and business related news.

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8 Publication: Smart Agri Post Date: May 30, 2018 About the publication: Smart AgriPost is an exclusive business to business and government to business magazine on Agriculture and Allied sectors in India. It covers a wide range of issues pertaining to agri-governance, business, retail, technology, equipment, machines, agri-traders, plant and animal farming and farmers. The objective of the magazine is to reach out to all policy makers, agritraders, companies, academicians and farmers, to inform and update them about the fast expanding terrain of Agriculture and Allied business in India, thereby empowering them to cope with the environment and do a profitable business.

9 Coverage: 5 Publication: Nafa Nuksan Date: May 25, 2018 About the publication Nafa Nuksan is a daily business newspaper published from Jaipur and circulated all over Rajasthan covering major cities and towns. The publication has more than 2.7 Lakh readers. Nafa Nuksan covers a broad range of issues including regular update on economy, share market, automobiles, information technology, investment related information, health care, fast moving consumer goods, commodity market and other national and international activities.

10 Coverage: 5 Publication: Seema Sandesh Date: May 25, 2018 About the publication Seema Sandesh is a State Level Hindi Daily, which is published simultaneously from Sriganganagar and Jaipur with circulation over 1.50 lac per day. It is running in 63rd year of its publication. The Sriganganagar Edition of Seema Sandesh has deep penetration in the Bikaner Division of Rajasthan along with adjoining parts of Punjab and Haryana.

11 Coverage 6 Publication: Business Remedies Date: May 25, 2018 About the publication: Business Remedies is a daily Hindi newspaper published from Jaipur. The newspaper provides latest stock market, financial and business related news.

12 Coverage: 7 NCDEX Educates Farmers for Commodity Markets at IFFCO event NEW DELHI MUMBAI RAJKOT NCDEX Investor (Client) Protection Fund Trust participated in the 47th Annual General Meeting of Indian Farmers Fertiliser Cooperative Limited (IFFCO) held on Wednesday at New Delhi and created awareness on agri commodity and derivatives market among hundreds of farmers who attended the event, the NCDEX press release said. National Commodity and Derivatives Exchange (NCDEX), one of the leading commodity Exchanges in the country, set up a state-of-the-art kiosk to educate and inform stakeholders about the commodity market, different stages of post-harvest activities management and benefits of using various hedging tools like Futures and Options. The stall was visited by prominent delegates including Mr Balwinder Singh Nakai, Chairman, IFFCO, Dr. US Awasthi, MD & CEO, IFFCO along with other senior IFFCO officials. These initiatives are a part of NCDEX IPFT s agenda of making the public aware of the various facets of the commodity market and its multifarious hedging instruments. IFFCO AGM has always been a great platform to create awareness among farmers, and to educate a large number of participants on how commodity markets can help them realize better prices and also can minimise their market risks, said an NCDEX representative. A special session to impart financial literacy was held every hour at the NCDEX IPFT stall and was followed by a small quiz where questions related to the session were asked to the participants. Farmers participated in huge numbers in this activity and the winners of the quiz were awarded assaying kits which included many small equipment like parkhi, tray, beaker, moisture meter, enamel etc. These equipment are used to assess the quality parameters of the harvested crop which, in turn would improve farm gate quality of the produce. Farmers can fetch better realisation by using them before they take their crop to traders. The winner farmers were also provided a quick on-spot tutorial in using the assaying kit. NCDEX has recently established two turmeric assaying facilities in Tamil Nadu in order to enable farmers to test the curcumin content of their produce. Awareness initiatives like this will encourage them to adopt measures to produce turmeric of superior quality, informed the NCDEX official. Publication: Date Line Gujarat Date: May 24, 2018 About the publication: Datelinegujarat.com is a digital news media platform and news reporting initiative which addresses native business developments shaping across the state.