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 24, 2015 02:26 IST
The Central government’s move to fix cotton seed prices and trait fees sends wrong...
Thu, Dec 24, 2015
Dec 18, 2015 00:16 IST
The Centre has defended its decision not to pass on the entire benefit of declining oil prices to...
Fri, Dec 18, 2015
Dec 17, 2015 03:31 IST
What the aggregate figure conceals is the huge monthly variation in rainfall engendering a drought...
Thu, Dec 17, 2015
Dec 14, 2015 00:02 IST
Supply-side issues from El Nino could see agriculture stand out amid the carnage in...
Mon, Dec 14, 2015
Dec 13, 2015 01:30 IST
Joshi’s primary contention was that farmers in India were, contrary to popular belief, victims of...
Sun, Dec 13, 2015
Dec 10, 2015 09:17 IST
The welcome September showers prompted farmers this time, to go in for early rabi season plantings,...
Thu, Dec 10, 2015
Dec 10, 2015 08:59 IST
“I got the money (subsidy on the seed) without any problem. It’s better than buying at Rs...
Thu, Dec 10, 2015
Dec 10, 2015 02:42 IST
Uttar Pradesh farmers have taken well to direct benefit transfers, though there are doubts if it...
Thu, Dec 10, 2015
Dec 08, 2015 02:27 IST
To counter malnutrition, national dairy board and Amul tie up for free milk...
Tue, Dec 08, 2015
Nov 26, 2015 11:07 IST
It’s not that Nabarangpur is without irrigation potential. The district’s average annual...
Thu, Nov 26, 2015
Nov 26, 2015 10:58 IST
Nabarangpur has 73 rice mills that can together process 2 lt of paddy...
Thu, Nov 26, 2015
Nov 26, 2015 01:09 IST
Over 95% families in Nabarangpur district get 25 kg rice at Rs...
Thu, Nov 26, 2015
Nov 19, 2015 02:04 IST
Almost a fifth of all foods produced and sold in the country contain pesticide residues, according...
Thu, Nov 19, 2015
Nov 14, 2015 02:09 IST
Farmers have so far sown only 38.91 lakh hectares (lh) under pulses in the current rabi season from...
Sat, Nov 14, 2015
Nov 09, 2015 02:25 IST
Bihar’s female literacy rate, at 53.33 per cent as per the 2011 Census, is the second lowest...
Mon, Nov 09, 2015
Nov 06, 2015 02:55 IST
The minimum support price (MSP) for the two pulse crops has been raised by Rs 250 per quintal over...
Fri, Nov 06, 2015
Nov 05, 2015 01:04 IST
Akhilesh Yadav’s govt will find granting even a token increase in state advised price difficult,...
Thu, Nov 05, 2015
Nov 04, 2015 00:00 IST
There is a worrying dearth of Indian economists working on agriculture...
Wed, Nov 04, 2015
Oct 29, 2015 02:12 IST
Rainfall during the current month has so far been 52 per cent below normal for the country as a...
Fri, Dec 25, 2015
Oct 22, 2015 00:55 IST
Nabarangpur, too, has a KVK under the Orissa University of Agriculture & Technology (OUAT). But...
Thu, Oct 22, 2015
Oct 20, 2015 00:45 IST
The price of dal is the big talking point in the Bihar elections. But the govt must think farther...
Tue, Oct 20, 2015
Oct 16, 2015 17:12 IST
Only 15 per cent of the 25 million hectares area sown annually for pulses in India is irrigated,...
Tue, Oct 20, 2015
Oct 16, 2015 01:21 IST
Domestic seed firms allege MNC of charging excess trait fee on Bt cotton...
Fri, Oct 16, 2015
Oct 15, 2015 03:30 IST
Adivasi, Dalit farmers in Nabarangpur choose hybrids over traditional...
Thu, Oct 28, 2021
Oct 15, 2015 01:40 IST
The story of Nabarangpur’s emergence, and now decline, as a major maize producing...
Thu, Oct 15, 2015