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).
Feb 19, 2024 16:35 IST
Price assurance for farmers is necessary for promoting crop diversification and also in the...
Tue, Feb 20, 2024
Feb 17, 2024 17:19 IST
The idea of a guaranteed minimum price for crops, like the seeds of the Green Revolution, both came...
Sun, Feb 18, 2024
Feb 12, 2024 16:23 IST
Protesting farmers from Punjab are set to reach the national capital in the coming days. One of...
Sat, Feb 17, 2024
Feb 12, 2024 07:30 IST
His land reform laws created a new socially and politically empowered middle peasantry in northern...
Thu, Feb 15, 2024
Feb 09, 2024 13:13 IST
Monkomb Sambasivan Swaminathan, 98, passed away last year on September 28. Called the ‘Father of...
Fri, Feb 09, 2024
Feb 07, 2024 05:33 IST
Robust export demand and growing domestic market main...
Wed, Feb 07, 2024
Feb 05, 2024 07:30 IST
The pandemic’s aftermath has led to the Centre and states accumulating a mountain of debt....
Tue, Feb 06, 2024
Feb 02, 2024 04:10 IST
The first is the discontinuation of the free, additional 5-kg monthly grain allocation to the 80...
Fri, Feb 02, 2024
Feb 02, 2024 02:19 IST
Govt hiked outlay by `26,000 crore in RE for 2023-24 from Rs 60,000 crore in BE owing to high...
Fri, Feb 02, 2024
Feb 01, 2024 10:02 IST
Budget 2024 Speech FM Nirmala Sitharaman Highlights, Explained: Finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman...
Fri, Feb 02, 2024
Feb 01, 2024 09:16 IST
Budget 2024 Live Updates, explained: Finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman is presenting an 'interim...
Thu, Feb 01, 2024
Jan 30, 2024 04:10 IST
NBS fertilisers — unlike urea, whose maximum retail price (MRP) is fixed by the government —...
Tue, Jan 30, 2024
Jan 29, 2024 07:30 IST
Covid-19, war and now elections have forced a reversal of the rationalisation of subsidies of the...
Tue, Jan 30, 2024
Jan 22, 2024 11:30 IST
Global food prices have crashed in the last one year or more, but inflation remains sticky and...
Tue, Jan 23, 2024
Jan 18, 2024 03:49 IST
Inflation and impact of March temperature on crop is...
Thu, Jan 18, 2024
Jan 08, 2024 19:12 IST
Madhya Pradesh and Haryana have demonstrated the feasibility of guaranteeing MSP on crops other...
Tue, Jan 09, 2024
Jan 03, 2024 01:27 IST
Sugar mills worry over diversion to higher-paying gur-making...
Wed, Jan 03, 2024
Jan 01, 2024 13:34 IST
The Modi government’s second term, from June 2019 till November 2023, has seen the general...
Tue, Jan 02, 2024
Dec 25, 2023 07:19 IST
Tracing change in rural India over a century through two villages, one in Tamil Nadu and the other...
Mon, Dec 25, 2023
Dec 18, 2023 07:15 IST
Agricultural labourers have seen their conditions of exchange — what they sell versus what they...
Wed, Dec 20, 2023
Dec 11, 2023 08:30 IST
Low stocks of sugar and uncertainties over production this year has forced the Modi government to...
Wed, Dec 13, 2023
Dec 06, 2023 04:24 IST
The fertiliser subsidy, which amounted to Rs 81,124.33 crore in 2019-20, shot up to Rs 127,921.74...
Wed, Dec 06, 2023
Dec 03, 2023 13:30 IST
MP’s agricultural success may elicit comparisons with the transformation wrought in...
Mon, Dec 04, 2023
Nov 27, 2023 13:09 IST
Here is how the "factors of technology" – genetics, crop nutrition, crop protection and agronomic...
Wed, Nov 29, 2023
Nov 20, 2023 07:00 IST
With over 60% of India's consumption requirements being met through imports, which could rise...
Tue, Nov 21, 2023