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).
Aug 02, 2021 03:30 IST
Real worry, however, is soaring global prices and availability of nutrients in rabi season ahead of...
Mon, Aug 02, 2021
Jul 23, 2021 02:40 IST
These wholesale rates at mandis in major producing centres are well below the Centre’s minimum...
Fri, Jul 23, 2021
Jul 05, 2021 04:20 IST
ICAR develops feed supplement that reduces emissions and also boosts milk...
Mon, Jul 05, 2021
Jul 04, 2021 03:39 IST
On Friday, the Department of Consumer Affairs (DCA) issued an order to impose stockholding limits...
Sun, Jul 04, 2021
Jun 28, 2021 04:00 IST
The global oil price hike has been passed on to Indian consumers. Will that happen with food too?...
Wed, Jun 30, 2021
Jun 14, 2021 04:10 IST
PDS offtake, procurement, warehouse stocks, and foodgrain exports hit highs in the last one year....
Thu, Jun 17, 2021
Jun 01, 2021 23:12 IST
The economy saw its worst-ever contraction in 2020-21, but the farm sector actually grew by 3.6%....
Thu, Jun 03, 2021
May 21, 2021 01:39 IST
The government has hiked the subsidy on DAP fertiliser by 137%. A look at the political and...
Thu, May 27, 2021
May 19, 2021 03:48 IST
Companies have been requested “to keep the reasonableness of their profits and not increase the...
Wed, May 19, 2021
May 17, 2021 03:30 IST
Thanks to surplus grain, exports in a pandemic year crossed 13 mn tonnes for rice, an all-time...
Sat, May 22, 2021
May 13, 2021 03:08 IST
The farm sector’s standout export performance, the best since the $43.25 billion of 2013-14, was...
Thu, May 13, 2021
May 12, 2021 03:20 IST
While 10.35 crore PM-JAY Cards have been issued since the launch of ‘the world’s largest health...
Wed, May 12, 2021
Apr 23, 2021 03:39 IST
The irony is that the section more prone to infecting others would also be low-income people, who...
Fri, Apr 23, 2021
Apr 19, 2021 03:00 IST
Most government welfare schemes are aimed at poverty alleviation and uplifting those at the bottom...
Mon, Apr 19, 2021
Apr 10, 2021 05:52 IST
Indian Farmers Fertiliser Cooperative (Iffco) Wednesday raised its maximum retail price (MRP) for...
Sat, Apr 10, 2021
Apr 09, 2021 01:00 IST
A 50-kg bag of di-ammonium phosphate (DAP), the most widely consumed fertiliser in India after...
Fri, Apr 09, 2021
Mar 28, 2021 21:48 IST
In rural India, the National Food Security Act of 2013 – which entitles three-fourths of all...
Mon, Mar 29, 2021
Mar 24, 2021 22:26 IST
The fear is of large-scale imports once the market is fully opened up: EU is the world’s biggest...
Thu, Mar 25, 2021
Mar 19, 2021 04:00 IST
Half of IARI’s divisions — including biochemistry, plant pathology, entomology, nematology,...
Fri, Mar 19, 2021
Mar 10, 2021 04:17 IST
That’s good news for the economy when agriculture is the only sector expected to grow by 3 per...
Wed, Mar 10, 2021
Mar 08, 2021 01:06 IST
Oil marketing firms set to procure record amount to blend with...
Mon, Mar 08, 2021
Feb 21, 2021 04:30 IST
All across India, dairies have reported milk price increases over the past couple of months. These...
Sun, Feb 21, 2021
Feb 15, 2021 02:32 IST
At the projected economic cost of Rs 29.94/kg for wheat and Rs 42.94/kg for rice, the corresponding...
Mon, Feb 15, 2021
Feb 11, 2021 03:05 IST
It is the rural middle class — which experienced a roughly four-decade spell of prosperity from...
Thu, Feb 11, 2021
Feb 07, 2021 03:54 IST
In November 2009, the then government withdrew a law that took away the powers of states to fix...
Sun, Feb 07, 2021