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).
Jun 01, 2019 04:55 IST
During 2014-15 to 2018-19, about 1.55 crore houses and 2.18 lakh km of all-weather roads were built...
Sat, Jun 01, 2019
May 18, 2019 05:19 IST
While Uttar Pradesh’s sugar belt has post-Independence shifted to the western and central...
Sat, May 18, 2019
May 14, 2019 01:04 IST
UP is truly at the crossroads: The state is uniquely poised to leverage opportunities from...
Tue, May 14, 2019
May 13, 2019 04:45 IST
The past couple of months have seen prices of a host of farm commodities surge, mainly on the back...
Mon, May 13, 2019
Apr 29, 2019 05:13 IST
4 lakh jobs, Rs 4,000-cr per month at stake; Kanpur, Unnao count...
Mon, Apr 29, 2019
Apr 18, 2019 00:20 IST
UP — Agra — now has an estimated 280 cold stores for potatoes. Given an average capacity of...
Fri, Apr 19, 2019
Apr 17, 2019 00:12 IST
"They successfully portrayed us as tax evaders and were themselves well-prepared to handle the new...
Wed, Apr 17, 2019
Apr 15, 2019 04:50 IST
Potato is a major crop in Agra, grown in 57,879 hectares of the district (2017-18 data) that...
Mon, Apr 15, 2019
Apr 11, 2019 00:51 IST
Custom hiring has made it possible for small landholders to avail benefits of precision...
Thu, Apr 11, 2019
Apr 04, 2019 05:10 IST
Kurdi Nangal has an estimated 9,000 voters, including Jats (6,000), Kashyaps (700), Jatavs (600),...
Thu, Apr 04, 2019
Apr 04, 2019 00:35 IST
Sanjeev Balyan, BJP MP from Muzaffarnagar and ex-Union Minister of State in an interview to The...
Thu, Apr 04, 2019
Apr 04, 2019 00:25 IST
For western UP’s Jat farmers, sugarcane payments and stray cattle are the only poll issues this...
Thu, Apr 04, 2019
Mar 28, 2019 05:40 IST
Given that the average yearly increase in the consumer price index (CPI) for rural India has been 5...
Thu, Mar 28, 2019
Mar 24, 2019 04:54 IST
In the 2014 Lok Sabha elections, the BJP had swept all the eight constituencies. In the 2017 state...
Sun, Mar 24, 2019
Mar 21, 2019 00:44 IST
Bt cotton helped India become the world’s No. 2 producer and No. 2 exporter of the fibre. But...
Thu, Mar 21, 2019
Mar 21, 2019 00:39 IST
Under the system of post-sale subsidy disbursal — as opposed to companies being paid on their...
Thu, Mar 21, 2019
Mar 14, 2019 03:15 IST
For the first time, Uttar Pradesh is set to surpass Maharashtra in both production and sugar...
Thu, Mar 14, 2019
Mar 14, 2019 00:38 IST
Agrarian crisis is an opportunity, for the government that assumes office after elections, to enact...
Thu, Mar 14, 2019
Mar 11, 2019 04:35 IST
The last five years, in other words, have seen a slowdown in rural wages even after adjusting for...
Mon, Mar 11, 2019
Mar 07, 2019 00:19 IST
A new high-yielding variety suitable for sowing in mid-October with zero tillage may be the answer...
Thu, Mar 07, 2019
Mar 05, 2019 02:47 IST
Currently, out of ICAR’s 103 research institutes, “nearly 63 are without a regular director for...
Tue, Mar 05, 2019
Mar 03, 2019 04:45 IST
Since for the farmer, it is not mere output but income (output multiplied by price) that matters,...
Sun, Mar 03, 2019
Feb 28, 2019 00:41 IST
The only way to prevent a further piling-up of cane arrears would be via improved sugar...
Thu, Feb 28, 2019
Feb 21, 2019 00:15 IST
The Congress government’s paddy populism in Chhattisgarh could hit a hurdle in New...
Thu, Feb 21, 2019
Feb 14, 2019 00:56 IST
Chhattisgarh, Bengal and UP emerge frontrunners in extending MSP-plus support to...
Thu, Feb 14, 2019