At NDDB we recognised that one of the biggest problems of Indian agriculture is that it is very difficult to fine-tune the production of an agricultural commodity exactly to match the demand. Production, being dependent on nature, will fluctuate. In such a scenario, it is easy for the traders and businessmen, whose only objective is to make money, to exploit the farmers. That is why the structure that NDDB promoted was a cooperative, non-exploitative structure, which eliminated the greedy people between those who produce the agricultural commodity and those who consume it. We believed that
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