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 04, 2017 00:49 IST
Chemical fertiliser application, too, was hardly 40,000 tonnes a year in nutrient terms, while...
Sat, Nov 04, 2017
Nov 02, 2017 03:30 IST
Over 30% of old crop still to be sold even as plantings for new season nears...
Thu, Nov 02, 2017
Oct 28, 2017 04:33 IST
The latest rise in wheat MSP is the highest since the Rs 150-per-quintal hike effected over a...
Sat, Oct 28, 2017
Oct 23, 2017 04:28 IST
Today, not only does the White Revolution’s contribution to farm incomes surpass that of the...
Mon, Oct 23, 2017
Oct 19, 2017 01:12 IST
The most recent example is of Tricyclazole. A single 120-gram spray of this common fungicide,...
Thu, Oct 19, 2017
Oct 16, 2017 00:50 IST
Data sets read together suggest demonetisation broke domestic supply chains, and disruption caused...
Mon, Oct 16, 2017
Oct 14, 2017 00:30 IST
Diwali is an ode to happiness, hope and homecoming, but it’s also a prayer for wealth and...
Tue, Oct 17, 2017
Oct 05, 2017 02:24 IST
The focus of worry has, instead, now shifted to Madhya Pradesh. Both west and east MP had received...
Thu, Oct 05, 2017
Oct 01, 2017 03:00 IST
The current rules mandate every meat export consignment to be subjected to microbiological tests,...
Sun, Oct 01, 2017
Sep 28, 2017 06:35 IST
Seed companies have sold an estimated 35 lakh packets of illegal herbicide-tolerant hybrid seed...
Thu, Sep 28, 2017
Sep 25, 2017 20:23 IST
Ice-cream previously attracted 2 per cent Central excise without Cenvat credit and 14.5 per cent...
Mon, Sep 25, 2017
Sep 25, 2017 01:54 IST
Any deviation from fiscal and monetary prudence not likely to go down well with...
Mon, Sep 25, 2017
Sep 21, 2017 02:27 IST
The central bank’s inflation targeting has aggravated an already existing anti-farmer policy...
Thu, Sep 21, 2017
Sep 18, 2017 02:00 IST
Some remarkable similarities exist between the current economic situation and the one that...
Mon, Sep 18, 2017
Sep 14, 2017 02:16 IST
Although the country as a whole received four per cent and 1.7 per cent above-average rainfall in...
Thu, Sep 14, 2017
Sep 02, 2017 04:36 IST
Agriculture growth lower in ‘nominal’ than ‘real’ terms during Apr-June...
Sat, Sep 02, 2017
Aug 24, 2017 02:50 IST
Significantly, 19 mills belonging to the UP Cooperative Sugar Factories Federation — effectively...
Thu, Aug 24, 2017
Aug 24, 2017 01:53 IST
Cane-starved southern mills want duty-free raw sugar imports, which the industry particularly in UP...
Thu, Aug 24, 2017
Aug 16, 2017 01:06 IST
Sexed semen technology is about preselecting the sex of offspring by sorting or separating the...
Wed, Aug 16, 2017
Aug 10, 2017 02:27 IST
The woes of pulses farmers and traders like Kagi can be put down to all-time-high imports of 6.6 mt...
Thu, Aug 10, 2017
Aug 03, 2017 01:25 IST
Today, the estimated annual turnover of the Indian private seed industry is around Rs 13,000 crore,...
Thu, Aug 03, 2017
Jul 28, 2017 00:35 IST
In just over a month, retail prices of tomato have gone from about Rs 20 per kg to Rs 70 per kg...
Fri, Jul 28, 2017
Jul 27, 2017 01:45 IST
For farmers, a uniform 2 per cent premium rate on sum insured (SI) for all kharif or monsoon season...
Thu, Jul 27, 2017
Jul 22, 2017 00:10 IST
Modi’s BJP may be alienating the vyapari as it courts Big Capital and the underclass ...
Sat, Jul 22, 2017
Jul 20, 2017 05:48 IST
In 2016, south interior Karnataka recorded 22 per cent deficit rainfall during the southwest...
Thu, Jul 20, 2017