India's Possible Transformation Long a protectionist, backward country, Prime Minister Narendra Modi is making modest changes that will alter India's agriculture and the broader economy. Indian Summer Rains Indian government programs that encourage excess agricultural production have been criticized both domestically and abroad, but these reflect a food security effort against the backdrop of a complex and uncertain monsoonal weather system. The Pink Revolution: The Politics of Meat in India The largely vegetarian Hindu nation of India has now become the second-largest exporter of bovine meat in the world. Questions remain about the new government's perspective on this growth. India's Growing Soymeal Demand In the past, India grew so...
Accountability and a comprehensive approach to export programming
WPI’s team helped construct a strategic approach to develop, implement, and track promotional activities in 8 key regions across the globe for an agricultural export association. With continued progress measurement and strategic advisory services from WPI, the association has seen its ROI from investments in promotional programming increase by 44 percent over the past 5 years. Not only does this type of holistic approach to organizational strategy provide measurable results to track and analyze, it fosters top-down and bottom-up organizational accountability.
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Developer's Note 24 August 2026: WPI recently completed an exercise that updated the codebase for this app and solved some of the discrepancies between our five-year average calculation and USDA's. There are a few lingering cases where early (late) starts (finishes) to the crop cycle resu...
Argentina Sunflower Sunflower remains one of the most attractive crops in Argentina, supported by strong demand and favorable prices that currently offer some of the best projected production margins among summer crops. Planted area is estimated at 3.0-3.1 Mha, with around 42 percent already se...