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).
Sep 10, 2016 05:03 IST
Haryana, as it is, has a relatively low population of cattle — cows, bulls, bullocks and female...
Sat, Sep 10, 2016
Sep 09, 2016 00:45 IST
A report that found transgenic mustard safe for humans, animals and the environment is currently up...
Fri, Sep 09, 2016
Sep 08, 2016 03:26 IST
The uptrend in prices is good for India’s dairy industry, which has seen exports plunge from a...
Thu, Sep 08, 2016
Sep 08, 2016 03:21 IST
Reconciling producer and consumer interests in sugar and wheat poses tricky challenges ahead of...
Thu, Sep 08, 2016
Sep 02, 2016 00:56 IST
Govt must learn from mistakes in onions and potatoes, agriculture should be spared of bearing the...
Fri, Sep 02, 2016
Aug 25, 2016 05:03 IST
The GI tag is used to identify various kinds of goods including Darjeeling tea, Kanchipuram silk...
Thu, Aug 25, 2016
Aug 25, 2016 03:38 IST
The retention of aroma is best when the flowering and grain-filling phase coincides with a cool...
Thu, Aug 25, 2016
Aug 18, 2016 02:16 IST
For the farmer, the main advantage from combines is the huge time (and cost) savings....
Thu, Aug 18, 2016
Aug 15, 2016 04:26 IST
Having endured back-to-back droughts, a combination of increased production, courtesy copious...
Mon, Aug 15, 2016
Aug 11, 2016 03:33 IST
The Centre’s budgeted outlay for the Integrated Watershed Management Programme (IWMP) has shrunk...
Thu, Aug 11, 2016
Aug 11, 2016 03:26 IST
A Pulses Revolution is possible even in the most backward districts, as a PPP project in...
Thu, Aug 11, 2016
Aug 04, 2016 03:16 IST
The current monsoon, unlike in 2015, had a bad...
Thu, Aug 04, 2016
Aug 01, 2016 00:48 IST
Unlike arhar, chana dal prices have gone up from Rs 70 since the beginning of 2016 and could...
Mon, Aug 01, 2016
Jul 29, 2016 04:53 IST
“I have resigned and am relinquishing charge with effect from August 1,” Nanda Kumar, who was...
Fri, Jul 29, 2016
Jul 28, 2016 02:21 IST
Soybean was grown in 11.63 million hectares (mh) in India last year, with Madhya Pradesh (5.91 mh),...
Thu, Jul 28, 2016
Jul 21, 2016 00:43 IST
Only 15 out of India’s top 50 conglomerates today were part of the same list in the pre-reform...
Thu, Jul 21, 2016
Jul 15, 2016 00:27 IST
Agriculture Ministry’s harvest estimates don’t square with drought conditions in several cases,...
Fri, Jul 15, 2016
Jul 13, 2016 02:05 IST
Four other major companies also have, as on Monday, paid at least 90 per cent of the value of their...
Wed, Jul 13, 2016Jul 07, 2016 02:28 IST
Fertiliser makers rule out reduction in DAP rates, despite exhortations from...
Thu, Jul 07, 2016
Jul 03, 2016 00:25 IST
What is dal without tadka, poori without its rich brown crust? The story of edible oil, a commodity...
Sun, Jul 03, 2016
Jun 27, 2016 03:00 IST
The number of such schools trebled from eight to 24, out of which 12 were in Shamli itself and the...
Mon, Jun 27, 2016
Jun 23, 2016 02:36 IST
Cane payment arrears have hit Western Uttar Pradesh’s farmers the...
Thu, Jun 23, 2016
Jun 21, 2016 00:55 IST
Focusing solely on CPI inflation — and ignoring negative WPI inflation — has resulted in...
Wed, Jun 22, 2016
Jun 20, 2016 05:14 IST
Even though Shamli tops in sugarcane production, there is nearly Rs 300 crore dues for district...
Mon, Jun 20, 2016
Jun 16, 2016 02:34 IST
Swaminathan formula of minimum 50 per cent profits remains a mirage for the farming...
Thu, Jun 16, 2016