Harish Damodaran is National Rural Affairs & Agriculture Editor of The Indian Express. A journalist with over 33 years of experience in agri-business and macroeconomic policy reporting and analysis, he has previously worked with the Press Trust of India (1991-94) and The Hindu Business Line (1994-2014)....Read More
Harish Damodaran is National Rural Affairs & Agriculture Editor of The Indian Express. A journalist with over 33 years of experience in agri-business and macroeconomic policy reporting and analysis, he has previously worked with the Press Trust of India (1991-94) and The Hindu Business Line (1994-2014).
Sep 25, 2022 22:55 IST
Food and beverage items have a combined 45.86% weight in the overall CPI. The RBI is supposed to be...
Mon, Jan 02, 2023
Sep 24, 2022 01:50 IST
According to Goyal, the government should consider alternative options for ethanol movement,...
Sat, Sep 24, 2022
Sep 19, 2022 07:00 IST
Accumulating large reserves of forex and food has helped India immensely. There is a cost to...
Tue, Sep 20, 2022
Sep 16, 2022 04:14 IST
Export cap may be revised from last year’s 100 lakh tonnes to 50 lakh from October; review in...
Fri, Sep 16, 2022
Sep 11, 2022 16:12 IST
The curbs announced will affect just under half of India’s rice exports in terms of quantity and...
Thu, Sep 15, 2022
Sep 09, 2022 17:59 IST
No food crop in history has been planted in as much area as the varieties developed by Gurdev Singh...
Sat, Sep 10, 2022
Sep 05, 2022 00:36 IST
Farmer Baldev Singh Bath is growing Pusa-44 by...
Mon, Sep 05, 2022
Sep 03, 2022 02:17 IST
Lumpi-ProVacInd – jointly developed by ICAR’s National Research Centre on Equines (NRCE) at...
Sat, Sep 03, 2022
Aug 30, 2022 17:28 IST
Harish Damodaran writes: The Adani case is interesting, both for the sheer breadth of industries it...
Wed, Aug 31, 2022
Aug 30, 2022 07:13 IST
Apart from policymaking, Abhijit Sen had a distinguished academic career with a PhD in Economics at...
Tue, Aug 30, 2022
Aug 29, 2022 04:30 IST
An IARI team surveyed a total of 24 fields in Sonepat, Panipat, Karnal, Kurukshetra, Ambala and...
Mon, Jan 02, 2023
Aug 27, 2022 04:22 IST
The economy’s slowdown happened after Nehru. Average GDP growth fell to 3.4% from 1965-66 to...
Sat, Aug 27, 2022
Aug 23, 2022 04:15 IST
Scientists at the Indian Agricultural Research Institute (IARI), who had collected samples of...
Tue, Aug 23, 2022
Aug 22, 2022 04:10 IST
Scientists yet to identify cause behind stunting of paddy plants in India’s Green Revolution...
Mon, Aug 22, 2022
Aug 16, 2022 16:02 IST
Bengaluru is the city where you can get milk cheaper than anywhere else in the country. What...
Wed, Aug 17, 2022
Aug 08, 2022 04:15 IST
International prices falling the most since Oct 2008 and a good monsoon back home make it a...
Wed, Aug 10, 2022
Aug 04, 2022 06:52 IST
Ukraine is India's major supplier of sunflower oil. Shipments were impacted after the Russian...
Thu, Aug 04, 2022
Aug 01, 2022 04:30 IST
There are fewer people employed in agriculture today, but the transformation has been weak. Those...
Tue, Aug 02, 2022
Aug 01, 2022 03:52 IST
According to the Union Agriculture Ministry’s latest compiled data as of July 29, farmers have so...
Mon, Aug 01, 2022
Jul 25, 2022 04:21 IST
India’s foreign exchange reserves have dipped $70 bn in 10 months. Before that, India had...
Mon, Jul 25, 2022
Jul 18, 2022 04:30 IST
While overall crop coverage has risen since last year, that of rice is down. Deficient rainfall in...
Tue, Jul 19, 2022
Jul 15, 2022 15:10 IST
According to the Union Agriculture Ministry’s latest data, farmers have planted a total area of...
Sat, Jul 16, 2022
Jul 11, 2022 06:09 IST
Palm oil down 43 per cent from March peak, sets the stage for easing of global food...
Tue, Jul 12, 2022
Jul 08, 2022 16:03 IST
Along with the revival of monsoon the decline in global food prices can help cool...
Fri, Jul 08, 2022
Jul 08, 2022 15:59 IST
The UN Food and Agricultural Organization's (FAO) Food Price Index averaged 154.2 points in June,...
Fri, Jul 08, 2022