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).
Nov 25, 2020 03:03 IST
Mills in the state have so far crushed 86.187 lakh tonnes (lt) of cane and produced 8.018 lt sugar...
Wed, Nov 25, 2020
Nov 17, 2020 04:58 IST
Mills are yet to get over Rs 5,000 crore of export assistance payments announced more than a year...
Tue, Nov 17, 2020
Nov 13, 2020 04:12 IST
Fertiliser companies were owed around Rs 48,000 crore subsidy dues at the start of the current...
Fri, Nov 13, 2020
Nov 09, 2020 03:38 IST
Commodity-wise foreign trade data from the department of commerce shows exports of farm goods from...
Mon, Nov 09, 2020
Nov 09, 2020 02:13 IST
Since 2013-14, grain storage capacity has gone up from 3-4 lakh tonnes to...
Mon, Nov 09, 2020
Nov 03, 2020 03:05 IST
Barauni has a new urea plant being built, refinery and power plant expansions, and a dedicated...
Tue, Nov 03, 2020
Nov 01, 2020 20:01 IST
Farmers in poll-bound Bihar are seeking mandis 'like in Punjab and...
Mon, Nov 02, 2020
Oct 30, 2020 01:01 IST
Bihar produces a quarter of India's corn, but few politicians are talking about a crop that...
Fri, Oct 30, 2020
Oct 26, 2020 04:14 IST
To what extent is the cheap/free wheat and rice, especially under PMGKAY, actually being diverted...
Thu, Oct 29, 2020
Oct 20, 2020 02:01 IST
The government proposes to limit the amount of fertilisers each farmer can buy during a cropping...
Tue, Oct 20, 2020
Oct 16, 2020 04:44 IST
Currently, the government is following a “no-denial” policy: anybody, non-farmers included, can...
Fri, Oct 16, 2020
Oct 15, 2020 01:40 IST
Agricultural labour shortage is leading to these itenerant machines being used even in coarse grain...
Thu, Oct 15, 2020
Oct 13, 2020 04:39 IST
The gap between the current and year-ago stocks, too, has narrowed down from over 15 mt to 1.5 mt...
Tue, Oct 13, 2020
Oct 06, 2020 03:29 IST
It can be reasonably inferred that the existing MSP/assured price system covers 25 million-plus...
Tue, Oct 06, 2020
Oct 05, 2020 04:15 IST
The last sugar year had also opened with cane arrears, though these weren’t as...
Mon, Oct 05, 2020
Sep 27, 2020 08:46 IST
How some startups are using AI for instant quality assessment of farm produce to tame pricing power...
Tue, Sep 29, 2020
Sep 27, 2020 03:40 IST
The idea of a Minimum Support Price for crops came first from a visiting US soil scientist and...
Sun, Sep 27, 2020
Sep 25, 2020 05:02 IST
The newly passed farm trade Bill has raised concerns that farmers may no longer be assured MSP for...
Thu, Dec 10, 2020
Sep 25, 2020 02:12 IST
This time round, the Narendra Modi government is taking no chances, especially with heavy rain in...
Fri, Sep 25, 2020
Sep 21, 2020 03:51 IST
Farmers’ Produce Trade and Commerce (Promotion and Facilitation) Bill: The government has sought...
Sat, Sep 26, 2020
Sep 17, 2020 01:30 IST
On Tuesday, prices of SMP at Global Dairy Trade (GDT), the fortnightly auction platform of New...
Thu, Sep 17, 2020
Sep 12, 2020 04:30 IST
These protests, preceded by sit-ins across Punjab, are expected to gather steam after September 14,...
Tue, Sep 15, 2020
Sep 10, 2020 04:15 IST
Ground reports from Madhya Pradesh (MP), India’s largest soyabean and urad (black gram) producer,...
Thu, Sep 10, 2020
Sep 05, 2020 00:49 IST
The UN Food and Agriculture Organization’s Food Price Index (FPI) averaged 96.1 points in August,...
Sat, Sep 05, 2020
Sep 01, 2020 01:25 IST
GVA from agriculture, forestry and fishing grew 3.4% at constant prices this April-June over...
Tue, Sep 01, 2020