Delivered the thematic address today at the CII Roundtable on Poultry & Animal Feed, New Delhi.
The headline: India's poultry sector is materially larger than the numbers driving current policy debate
The real scale, cross-checked against weekly placements & hatchery throughput:
6.4 billion broilers/yr
149 billion eggs/yr
~50 MMT feed under management
15+ MMT total SBM demand (poultry + aqua + dairy)
SOPA's 20.2 MMT broiler feed figure understates demand by nearly 10 MMT.
This changes everything — maize allocation between ethanol & feed, the case for GM feed regulation, and how we calibrate the new India–US DDGS framework.
Feed security is national food security. Viksit Bharat @ 2047 runs through the feed mill.
@PoultryIndia15 #FeedSecurity #ViksitBharat2047 @cii_face@FollowCII@ClfmaIndia
Another General.
Another horror story🚨
A reliable source has conveyed to me the story of a 19-year-old bride, #Huma, who married Major Asif of the Pakistan Army.
According to the source, Brigadier Amjad Aziz Mughal, now Major General Amjad Aziz Mughal… “gifted” the newlywed Huma to his son, Major Safeer, as a so-called “birthday gift” during a 10-day stay at the Officers’ Mess in #Skardu.
The allegations do not end there.
During those 10 days, Huma was sexually assaulted repeatedly by at least 15 of Major Safeer’s batchmates inside an Army rest house in Skardu. The source further claims alcohol, drugs and Viagra were used during the abuse.
Meanwhile, Major Asif was allegedly rewarded with a brand-new non-custom-paid Lexus Land Cruiser and a posting in #Rawalpindi to avoid deployment to dangerous areas.
Major General Amjad Aziz Mughal and Major General Wajid Aziz Mughal, currently serving as DG Military Intelligence at GHQ Rawalpindi… both belong to the Poonch/Abaspur region of #POK.
If even a fraction of these allegations is true, this is not just corruption of power… it is moral collapse at the highest level.
#PakistanArmyCrimes
I fully endorse this, I like to add to this that it will the smarter move to come back, because India this century will be the true land of opportunity
Open letter to Indians in America.
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Dear brothers and sisters from Bharat:
Like I did 37 years ago, you arrived in America with no money but with a good education and cultural heritage from Bharat. You achieved outstanding success. America was good to us. For that we must remain grateful - gratitude is our Bharatiya way.
Yet today, a significant number of Americans, may be not the majority but not too far from it either, believe that Indians "take away" American jobs and our success in America was unfairly earned.
You may think the next election will fix this, but your choice would be between people who hate our Bharatiya civilisation and people who hate civilisation itself. That is the "hard right" vs "woke left" battle. You are mere bystanders to that conflict.
Meanwhile there is one thing that is true now and will be true in the future: the respect Indians command world-wide will substantially depend on the fortunes of India herself. If India remains poor, the woke left will give us moral lectures with pity and the hard right, different moral lectures with scorn ("hellhole") and we must not confuse either with respect.
Respect in today's world, along with prosperity and security, comes from one source: a nation's technological prowess. India produces sufficient brain power to achieve that prowess but alas we exported so much of that talent, particularly to America. As we develop that prowess in India, our civilisational strength will assert itself.
As difficult as it is for many of you to contemplate this, please come back home. Bharat Mata needs your talent. Our vast youthful population needs the technology leadership you gained over the years to guide them towards prosperity. Let's do it with a missionary zeal.
Respectfully
Sridhar Vembu
India is rewriting the rules of global conservation. While the world struggles with biodiversity loss, India has achieved the impossible: simultaneous population growth across five distinct species of Big Cats. Here is the story of India’s roaring comeback.
CHEETAHS:
Declared extinct in 1952, the Cheetah returned under Project Cheetah, a historic intercontinental translocation. Starting with 8, brought from Namibia in 2022, successful births on Indian soil have seen a rise to 57 by 2026. This restores a missing link in our grassland ecosystem.
TIGERS: The Great Indian Miracle (160.95% Growth)
In 2006, India’s Tiger population hit a record low of 1,411. Through the National Tiger Conservation Authority and strict anti-poaching measures, we turned the tide. By 2022, that number soared to 3,682, meaning India now houses 70% of the global wild tiger population. Using cutting-edge tech like M-STrIPES and voluntary village relocations, India proved that economic development and apex predator conservation can coexist.
ASIATIC LIONS: The Pride of Gujarat (From 327 to 891)
Restricted to the Gir Forests, Asiatic Lions faced a dangerous bottleneck with just 327 individuals in 2000. However, through the "Maldhari" community co-existence model and world-class veterinary care, we witnessed a steady ascent. The population rose to 674 in 2020 and is estimated to reach 891 in 2025. We have effectively pulled the King of the Jungle back from the edge of extinction.
LEOPARDS: The Silent Expansion (Dominating at 13,874)
Leopard's growth has exploded from 7,910 in 2014 to a massive 13,874 in 2022. By robustly protecting Tiger Reserves, we created an "umbrella effect" that secured the leopard's future across 70% of sampled habitats. India’s strategy focuses on conflict mitigation and rapid response teams, allowing these adaptable predators to thrive without major ecological friction.
SNOW LEOPARDS: Guardians of the Third Pole (718 Strong)
In 2024, the first-ever scientific assessment (SPAI) confirmed a population of 718 Snow Leopards. This is a monumental achievement in the Himalayas. "Project Snow Leopard" succeeded by prioritising community-based conservation, working with herders to predator-proof corrals and preventing retaliatory killings. This secures the ecology of the "Third Pole," the source of India's major rivers.
India is now the only country to host Tigers, Lions, Leopards, Snow Leopards, and Cheetahs in the wild. This data proves that when India decides to protect, nature thrives.