PASIGHAT, Nov 3: Coordinated by Dr. Apilang Apum, Assistant Professor, Economics, Jawaharlal Nehru College (JNC) Pasighat in collaboration with JNC-IQAC, an International Lecture on the topic “Plantation Regimes in North East India” was organised today in blended mode. Roderick Wijunamai, Cornell University, New York, was the resource person who dealt with important issues pertaining to Oil Palm Plantation in North East India.
Resource person Wijunamai highlighted the issues of how the ‘Grand Idea’ of making India self-reliant in edible oil production under National Mission on Edible Oil- Oil Palm (NMEO-OP) was not happening in practice in a proper manner. He brought out the gender aspect of such policies which were patriarchal in nature. The resource person stressed on asking important questions likes ‘What is the main agenda behind such policy? Who defines the value in the market? What kind of benefits do the farmers get? And how does it impact the local economy’. Wijunamai opined that governments were unable to persuade the big companies to set up the industry because they were unable to speculate profits from it which causes a big loss to the farmers and therefore it was important to know the socio-economic and cultural environment of the community before making any policies.
The programme was attended by the JNC Principal Dr. Tasi Taloh, IQAC Coordinator Dr. DP Panda, HoD (Economics) Nong Tayeng, faculty members and students of the college. 

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