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).
Dec 16, 2019 04:50 IST
Contrast this to the period since 2010 before this government assumed office, which saw the MRP of...
Mon, Dec 16, 2019
Dec 13, 2019 04:40 IST
What is striking is how quickly it has risen — from just 2.99 per cent in August to 5.11 per cent...
Fri, Dec 13, 2019
Dec 12, 2019 02:11 IST
The daily wage rate in rural India for male workers across 25 occupations (12 agricultural and 13...
Thu, Dec 12, 2019
Dec 10, 2019 04:30 IST
Govt plans to change existing law to ensure availability of quality seeds to farmers. How will the...
Tue, Dec 10, 2019
Dec 05, 2019 00:21 IST
The ongoing price recovery in major crops is in danger of being stymied by knee-jerk government...
Thu, Dec 05, 2019
Nov 30, 2019 05:20 IST
Unlike all the earlier downturns whose precursors/triggers were supply-side constraints in food and...
Sat, Nov 30, 2019
Nov 21, 2019 00:42 IST
India’s sugar exports are set to hit a record high this year, providing some respite to the...
Thu, Nov 21, 2019
Oct 31, 2019 04:42 IST
Barring these two, exports of most commodities have taken a hit from global headwinds this...
Thu, Oct 31, 2019
Oct 24, 2019 01:04 IST
Prices of most farm produce are looking up. That, together with the country’s best monsoon in 25...
Thu, Oct 24, 2019
Oct 22, 2019 03:25 IST
As per Commerce Ministry data, India’s vegetable oil imports were valued at Rs 69,023.79 cr in...
Tue, Oct 22, 2019
Oct 21, 2019 04:59 IST
Out of the 1,646 fodder camps, the maximum were opened in Beed (549, with 3.49 lakh animals),...
Mon, Oct 21, 2019
Oct 17, 2019 01:35 IST
The main reason for rejecting the DCT (as opposed to DBT) option was the belief that paying market...
Thu, Oct 17, 2019
Oct 11, 2019 04:10 IST
It is the industry that is lobbying the hardest to keep its products out of the free trade...
Fri, Oct 11, 2019
Oct 10, 2019 04:20 IST
Andhra Pradesh government’s YSR Rythu Bharosa, being implemented from October 15, is the latest...
Thu, Oct 10, 2019
Oct 03, 2019 04:47 IST
These companies are proactively engaging the Indian farmer more than government...
Thu, Oct 03, 2019
Oct 03, 2019 04:20 IST
Chilli prices are good this time, but the crop is still a risky...
Thu, Oct 03, 2019
Sep 30, 2019 03:00 IST
The costs of government shortsightedness aren’t small. India, in 2018-19, exported 21.83 lakh...
Mon, Sep 30, 2019
Sep 26, 2019 04:41 IST
Farmers are paying about Rs 15,000 crore GST annually, on which they cannot claim input tax...
Thu, Sep 26, 2019
Sep 19, 2019 00:13 IST
Called HD-3226 or Pusa Yashasvi, the new variety has recorded a weighted average yield of 57.5...
Thu, Sep 19, 2019
Sep 19, 2019 00:10 IST
Govt’s push notwithstanding, farmers will not pay for sex-sorted semen unless they see value for...
Thu, Sep 19, 2019
Sep 17, 2019 04:20 IST
Andhra Pradesh, Gujarat and Telangana are the top three states, having disbursed the third...
Tue, Sep 17, 2019
Sep 11, 2019 04:38 IST
NAFED has been tasked with purchasing all the apples that growers bring to sell at mandis in the...
Wed, Sep 11, 2019
Sep 10, 2019 04:25 IST
This comes even as Prime Minister Narendra Modi, addressing the 14th Conference of Parties to the...
Tue, Sep 10, 2019
Sep 05, 2019 04:05 IST
Boosting farm incomes is the best way to combat the Indian economy’s woes...
Thu, Sep 05, 2019
Sep 04, 2019 04:00 IST
Government has hiked ethanol procurement price for blending with petrol, allowed conversion of old...
Wed, Sep 04, 2019