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 15, 2016 06:59 IST
There is uncertainty over the production prospects for the wheat currently being planted in the...
Thu, Dec 15, 2016
Dec 13, 2016 05:29 IST
Decision, despite bumper crop, taken by other ministries, says top...
Tue, Dec 13, 2016
Dec 12, 2016 03:02 IST
Central to understanding the Narendra Modi government’s ‘notebandi’ is understanding how...
Mon, Dec 12, 2016
Dec 09, 2016 02:35 IST
Since demonetisation happened on November 8, ex-factory sugar prices in UP have eased from around...
Fri, Dec 09, 2016
Dec 04, 2016 01:38 IST
The Indian Express travels to Jaunti, the now largely forgotten village on the outskirts of Delhi,...
Sat, Mar 02, 2024
Dec 01, 2016 04:54 IST
In three of the four commodities, tight supplies have already led to price rise. Wheat is now...
Thu, Dec 01, 2016
Nov 28, 2016 00:05 IST
Demonetisation, along with GST, will bring about a fundamental reordering of business enterprise in...
Mon, Nov 28, 2016
Nov 24, 2016 02:00 IST
Allowing use of Rs 500 notes for purchase of seed does not address other bigger expenses paid out...
Thu, Nov 24, 2016
Nov 21, 2016 00:02 IST
All previous radical monetary experiments have followed hyperinflation or protracted currency...
Mon, Nov 21, 2016
Nov 19, 2016 03:11 IST
In wheat, the situation has been worsened by stocks with FCI — at 18.84 million tonnes (mt) as on...
Sat, Nov 19, 2016
Nov 17, 2016 03:45 IST
While countless businesses across India have faced problems after demonetisation, leading to spate...
Thu, Nov 17, 2016
Nov 15, 2016 00:25 IST
The effects of de-monetisation will be the most acute when it spreads from consumption in...
Tue, Nov 15, 2016
Nov 08, 2016 22:19 IST
The people who would be really hit are the ones who have stored their ill-gotten wealth in the now...
Wed, Nov 09, 2016
Nov 03, 2016 02:02 IST
The gross revenue from 82 kg meal and 18 kg oil at current ex-factory rates, then, works out to Rs...
Thu, Nov 03, 2016
Oct 27, 2016 03:41 IST
Unlike most other pests, this one typically strikes very late, when the paddy crop is already 80-90...
Thu, Oct 27, 2016
Oct 27, 2016 03:37 IST
The Centre had, on September 23, reduced the import duty on wheat from 25 per cent to 10 per cent....
Thu, Oct 27, 2016
Oct 20, 2016 02:06 IST
The Narendra Modi government may spend close to Rs 60,000 crore on the Mahatma Gandhi National...
Thu, Oct 20, 2016
Oct 17, 2016 00:14 IST
The opposition’s main contention is that the GM mustard hybrid incorporates three alien genes —...
Mon, Oct 17, 2016
Oct 13, 2016 01:09 IST
Sugar is the commodity to watch in the New Year, when we also have the country’s largest cane...
Thu, Oct 13, 2016
Oct 10, 2016 03:04 IST
Experts attribute it to neem-coating, more pulses and lack of...
Mon, Oct 10, 2016
Oct 06, 2016 02:14 IST
In a scenario of depressed crop prices, a unique PPP model in milk shows the way...
Thu, Oct 06, 2016
Oct 04, 2016 00:41 IST
According to the UP Cane Commissioner’s Office at Lucknow, the biggest contributor to the total...
Tue, Oct 04, 2016
Sep 27, 2016 00:02 IST
Decentralised industrialisation, entrepreneurship from below have been absent in states that have...
Tue, Sep 27, 2016
Sep 22, 2016 01:35 IST
Two new indigenously developed events promise a better Bt cotton, with resistance to whitefly and...
Thu, Sep 22, 2016
Sep 15, 2016 01:43 IST
Again, going by NSSO data, while 11.9 per cent of an average Indian agricultural household’s...
Thu, Sep 15, 2016