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Tapping agriculture’s potential to create more jobs

July 13, 2024 12:13 am

It requires re-imagining agriculture and a vision of the “farm as a factory” producing crops that are raw material for further value addition. Converting onion and tomato to paste and puree can do what sugar mills and dairies have done -- not just adding value to produce, but also creating jobs in the countryside itself

How demand for cereals in India is changing

June 23, 2024 12:00 pm

The demand for cereals for direct household consumption is falling in India, but demand is rising for use in processed foods, animal feed, and fuel. Official figures suggest production of cereals is outstripping overall consumption, but certain other indicators remain unexplained

Daily Briefing: Key findings of the Household Consumption Expenditure Survey; Akhilesh joins Rahul’s yatra; and more

February 26, 2024 8:50 am

In today’s edition: HCES 2022-23 data; Ajay Bisaria at Idea Exchange; Akhilesh joins Rahul’s yatra; and more

Bibek Debroy writes: BIMARU states are breaking poverty’s chains

August 10, 2023 10:18 pm

On various indicators, they are showing remarkable improvement

Women and work

October 16, 2020 8:29 pm

How unpaid labour by women subsidises the Indian economy

Govt to release withheld Periodic Labour Force Survey for 2017-18

May 31, 2019 1:47 am

Compiled by NSSO, Centre had not released the report, terming it a draft report.

Across the Aisle: Inflation is bad, but is deflation good?

April 26, 2015 12:37 am

Deflation is not an unmixed blessing. Sometimes it can be more calamitous than inflation.

The great forgetting

December 27, 2014 8:25 am

The reference period, 2012-13, was a year with record foodgrain production and a normal monsoon.

Only 22 pc of Muslims aged over 40,national average at 27.2 pc

September 23, 2013 1:50 am

Children and youth belonging to the community,however,survive despite complaints of deprivation.

‘Rural Christians,urban Sikhs faced highest unemployment levels after 2008 meltdown’

August 05, 2013 2:16 am

A National Sample Survey Office (NSSO) study shows the unemployment rate in rural India at the time was lower than in urban areas

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