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).
Apr 03, 2017 03:18 IST
THE SUDDEN spike in temperatures since early last week is stoking concerns over the standing wheat...
Mon, Apr 03, 2017
Mar 30, 2017 00:17 IST
A new 125-day rice variety promises to provide some respite to Punjab farmers, depleting...
Thu, Mar 30, 2017
Mar 24, 2017 01:22 IST
Numbers don’t back claims of UP’s declining livestock wealth, crackdown on meat processing...
Fri, Mar 24, 2017
Mar 23, 2017 05:08 IST
Under the proposed system, payment of subsidy is to be based on weekly settlement of claims from...
Thu, Mar 23, 2017
Mar 23, 2017 02:11 IST
The message is likely to fall on deaf years for a simple...
Thu, Mar 23, 2017
Mar 23, 2017 02:07 IST
PM Modi government’s mandatory coating policy brings down sale of fertilisers, despite record...
Thu, Mar 23, 2017
Mar 16, 2017 01:08 IST
A BJP government in both the Centre and state could help fix the endemic problem of cane arrears in...
Thu, Mar 16, 2017
Mar 15, 2017 01:25 IST
In all, there are about 106 Assembly constituencies that can be seen as part of UP’s main...
Wed, Mar 15, 2017
Mar 02, 2017 00:50 IST
The country’s premier farm research and education institute has not had a full-time director for...
Thu, Mar 02, 2017
Feb 23, 2017 02:07 IST
There’s nothing new to that; if at all, it is only a pledge to implement an already existing...
Thu, Feb 23, 2017
Feb 23, 2017 02:00 IST
Given a likely supply-demand gap, slashing import duty may be necessary but the environment post-UP...
Thu, Feb 23, 2017
Feb 16, 2017 01:20 IST
The current government’s focus on rural housing and road building can prove politically useful...
Thu, Feb 16, 2017
Feb 10, 2017 01:16 IST
Their issues not highlighted in party campaigns, sugar farmers in 104 seats prepare to vote with...
Thu, Feb 16, 2017
Feb 02, 2017 01:43 IST
The Centre’s fiscal deficit has been pegged at 3.2 per cent of GDP, only a tad out of line with...
Thu, Feb 02, 2017
Jan 26, 2017 01:47 IST
PDZM-31 is being grown in the current rabi season at IARI here for production of seed to enable...
Thu, Jan 26, 2017
Jan 19, 2017 01:36 IST
The story of a cane variety that has transformed the fortunes of Uttar Pradesh’s sugar...
Thu, Jan 19, 2017
Jan 16, 2017 04:20 IST
Sherkot has around 600 small-scale and cottage industry units that produce an estimated 70 per cent...
Tue, Jan 17, 2017
Jan 14, 2017 01:19 IST
The evolution of Indian capitalism seen through the lens of the managing agency, whose spirit lives...
Sat, Jan 14, 2017
Jan 12, 2017 02:23 IST
Extended dry weather in Tamil Nadu and southern Karnataka could have a production impact,...
Thu, Jan 12, 2017
Jan 12, 2017 02:04 IST
India to be `10-lakh crore market by 2020; money is in liquid milk, dahi and khoa, not cheese and...
Thu, Jan 12, 2017
Jan 05, 2017 01:15 IST
Milk prices rising during peak production season should be a worry for the government...
Thu, Jan 05, 2017
Dec 29, 2016 03:33 IST
For farmers, the main source of their woes is a bumper...
Thu, Dec 29, 2016
Dec 27, 2016 00:58 IST
Today’s demonetisation-induced crash in farm produce may be a prelude to higher prices...
Tue, Dec 27, 2016
Dec 22, 2016 04:48 IST
Only in urea were sales, at 26.89 lt last month, marginally lower than the 27.37 lt for November...
Thu, Dec 22, 2016
Dec 22, 2016 04:45 IST
Monsanto has sublicensed its BG-II Bt technology — which was granted an Indian patent in February...
Thu, Dec 22, 2016