To combat food price inflation in your opinion should FDI in multi brand retail be allowed or disallowed?

Please support with logic and no if needed.

agricultural productivity in India has remained stagnant for long persistent imbalances in demand-supply have resulted in this very strong and structural inflationary pressure. increase productivity ensure an efficient distribution network farm-to-fork supply system

Should commodity trading in futures market be stopped for certain agricultural products such as sugar potatoes whose prices have spiralled upwards to contain food price inflation and hoarding for speculative profits? Support answer with reasons and also add whether its always bad to have commodity futures trading?

The commodity futures markets therefore achieve two things: First, they link domestic food prices to the volatile international commodity markets. Second, they provide avenues for pure speculators, who have nothing to do either with production or trade in food, to emerge as major players and make capital gains by speculating on food prices.

 The people who are investing in these markets are not farmers, but big players of the financial markets who are only interested in making speculative gains India is a food deficient country. Our productivity levels are low and we are not producing enough to meet the demands of a growing population. Moreover, our agricultural production is heavily dependent on the weather and above or below normal rainfall (floods and drought), significantly affects the supply of agricultural commodities. Storage capacity in India is also limited and many food items cannot be stored because of lack of modern storage facilities. In this backdrop, futures trading in food items distort the price signals and encourage speculation and hoarding, thus contributing to food inflation. Therefore, in order to control food inflation, futures trading in food articles need to be prohibited