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Two significant announcements have been made by the government of India in a short span of one month on how India plans to deal with the twin problems of the oil sector- ever increasing reliance on imports to meet the growing demand and controlling the retail prices of edible oils. On 10th August the prime minister announced a plan to boost domestic production of edible oils at an […]
An overwhelming thought arose during my routine meditation today. And in the eyes of my mind I was pulled back for a while to about 5 decades to a time when I as a fresh college graduate from Anand veterinary College and joined NDDB. I had recently joined and posted at NDDB Head Office in […]
Year-1995-96; A watershed moment of my professional career Not many would remember that in 1995 National Dairy Development Board had initiated a project on ” Oil Palm”. The project was initiated in Mandya district of Karnataka with the objective of producing, procuring, processing and marketing Palm oil so that the burden of import of edible […]
In 1963, while in Science College, Nagpur in our pre-medical batch we had number of girls as classmates rather as many as we boys. During those days talking to a girl was not easy and for me the problem was about speaking in English as having studied in Marathi medium I was learning to cope […]
Last row from left to right; 1- N Vishwanath, Nand Vardhan Naithani, VS Behla and his son Vikram 2- Naithani, Nagar and Shailendra picture taken outside Manibhuvan some 50 plus years ago !
I met Ganeshji not in the century that I was born but had to wait for the onset of the new millennium plus almost eight years for the planets to synchronise and be at the right position to create a favourable grah dasha. Ganesh ji a prolific blogger, banker, company secretary, connoisseur of music and […]
I started working at the age of 22 and got a regular full time job with the National Dairy Development Board ( NDDB), Anand in 1968. I decided to leave NDDB after 32 years of service in the year 2000. It was a one of the most difficult personal decisions of my life. Thereafter, I […]
The year 1970 had begun very well for me. On 1st of January I had landed in Indian Veterinary Research Institute, Izzatnagar, as a Trainee Officer deputed by Bharatiya Agro Industries Foundation (BAIF) to undergo three months’ Advance Course in Physio Pathology of Reproduction and Artificial Insemination. That course was usually meant for Captains and […]
Dr. Mukund Naware In August 1977 Dr Naware returned from Guntur after working there as Spear Head Team Leader for 7 months. Back to Anand, he was waiting for further orders and spending time in giving lectures in on-going training programs and escorting important visitors under Guest Programs in the evenings……he writes.. Like every story […]
Most of my former colleagues are now very senior citizens. Many of them are not technology savvy. To set up this blog dedicated to audio stories was a technological challenge for me too. It has taken me three days to finally figure out a way to upload audio files on Vrikshamandir. I decided not to […]
I write this on the morning of Christmas Day of 2019 from Toronto. My 6 year old granddaughter gave me a beautiful card with a message that she wrote for me. Unlike her I wrote to my great grand father but since he didn’t know how to read or write I wrote to my grand […]