On The Retail Trail UP farmers back corporates as Mayawati halts Reliance Retail's bandwagon.
Business Today, September, 2007 by Saumya Bhattacharjya
AUGUST 30, 2007
Lucknow
It's been exactly one week since Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati ordered the closure of organised retail outlets in the state. BT's destination for the day is the state capital Lucknow-- the city of nawabs and kebabs. Dotted with countless hoardings of Mayawati, the city is the centre of another controversy--the rollback of state agricultural policy that allowed contract farming and the entry of private sector players in agri-business. The major stakeholders impacted by the hullabaloo are the farmers and the big organised retail players.
It's 7.30 a.m. as we come out of the Amausi Airport. As the local newspapers report overwhelming farmer support to Reliance Fresh, we (BT lensman and I) decide to hear them out first and head to...
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