Sri ramakrishna karuturi biography sample

  • Meet Sai Ramakrishna Karuturi whose improbable journey has taken him, at 43, from a family-run cable business in Bangalore to being one of the biggest.
  • Sai Ramakrishna Karuturi set up shop in the Ethiopian capital of Addis Ababa, his company was already the world's largest producer of cut roses.
  • Bhagavan said that the principal sadhanas we should practise were to eat only sattvic food and observe satsanga.

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    He owns land eight times the size of Mumbai, 7.4 lakh acres to be precise. He claims to be the world's largest holder of greenhouse assets (750 acres) and the world's largest landbank holder.

    His company, Karuturi Global, figures among the top 25 agri transnational corporations. But he wants more — to break into the top 10 and rub shoulders with the likes of ConAgro and Cargill.

    Meet Sai Ramakrishna Karuturiwhose improbable journey has taken him, at 43, from a family-run cable business in Bangalore to being one of the biggest landowners in the world. No mean achievement for a boy who was thrown out of six schools before landing on his feet at Mysore's Sri Rama Krishna Vidyashala. He's forever indebted to the institute's Swami Sureshanandaji and to his parents who refused to give up on a "difficult child."

    Karuturi, the 'rose king of the world', with an annual capacity of 550 million roses and a 9 per cent share of the crucial European market, has today gone far be

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    Ramakrishna Karuturi: Man behind Karuturi Global - world's largest producer of cut roses

    Three years ago when Sai Ramakrishna Karuturi set up shop in the Ethiopian capital of Addis Ababa, his company was already the world’s largest producer of cut roses. But the founder and managing director of Karuturi Globaldidn’t want to do in Addis Ababa what he was doing in Kenya in the past seven years. The 45-year-old mechanical engineer wanted to move beyond the company’s mainstay, floriculture.

    With the government of Ethiopia leasing out land at low cost to hi-tech foreign agriculture companies, there was indeed an opportunity in commercial farming; Ethiopia plans to transfer 3.3 million ha of land to such investors for the next four years.

    “We were looking at becoming one of the top five agro-commodities [rice, maize, etc] producers in the world and a significant player in the global food business,” says Karuturi who has steered Karuturi Global, once confined to Bangalore alone, to an

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    The state of free speech in India remains a cause for concern judging by the rise in recorded attacks on the media and the increasing use of defamation suits — the most marked trends in 2014.

    The figure for attacks on the media rose sharply with better data collection. There were at least 85 attacks this year. For the first time, since January 2014, the National brott Records Bureau (NCRB) has begun collecting data on attacks on the media as a separate category.

    Reported cases of defamation and legal notices alleging defamation totaled 21 in 2014 (till månad 15). Of the eleven new cases recorded, seven were filed against media, two against college publications, and 3 against individual politicians. Two were court orders against publishers, a total of 14. Those against the media included the cases filed bygd Justice Swatanter Kumar and Indian captain M.S. Dhoni; politician Gurudas Kamat, and the Sahara Group.

    In addition, one defamation conviction was upheld in a case fil