Partha Sarathi Biwas is an Assistant Editor with The Indian Express with 10+ years of experience in reporting on Agriculture, Commodities and Developmental issues. He has been with The Indian Express since 2011 and earlier worked with DNA....Read More
Partha Sarathi Biwas is an Assistant Editor with The Indian Express with 10+ years of experience in reporting on Agriculture, Commodities and Developmental issues. He has been with The Indian Express since 2011 and earlier worked with DNA. Partha's report about Farmers Producer Companies (FPC) as well long pieces on various agricultural issues have been cited by various academic publications including those published by the Government of India. He is often invited as a visiting faculty to various schools of journalism to talk about development journalism and rural reporting. In his spare time Partha trains for marathons and has participated in multiple marathons and half marathons.
Mar 31, 2022 18:42 IST
The Centre has paved the way for easy introduction of genome edited crops. What is genome editing...
Fri, Apr 01, 2022
Mar 31, 2022 12:37 IST
Processors can store only 90 days' worth of storage/production capacity while retailers can hold up...
Thu, Mar 31, 2022
Mar 31, 2022 11:59 IST
Wednesday’s notification has exempted Site Directed Nuclease (SDN) 1 and 2 genomes and instead it...
Thu, Mar 31, 2022
Mar 31, 2022 00:36 IST
Prices of almost all pulses have now crossed Rs 100/kg with chana (Rs 77/kg) being the only...
Thu, Mar 31, 2022
Mar 30, 2022 00:58 IST
Meanwhile, farmers’ bodies which are conducting major mango festivals and door-step delivery of...
Wed, Mar 30, 2022
Mar 29, 2022 10:51 IST
A mountain of trash higher than most high-rises in the area, the Moshi landfill represents the...
Thu, Apr 07, 2022
Mar 28, 2022 19:45 IST
The state government says this will allow mills time to raise money for payment. Farmers, the...
Mon, Mar 28, 2022
Mar 26, 2022 12:32 IST
Mango growers from Konkan coast of Maharashtra have reported healthy crop of their Alphonso/Hapus,...
Sun, Mar 27, 2022
Mar 24, 2022 02:25 IST
The government's move to incentivise an additional crop of soybean in the Rabi season has its roots...
Thu, Mar 24, 2022
Mar 21, 2022 14:05 IST
The report, a copy of which was sent to The Indian Express, claimed that 61 organisations,...
Tue, Mar 22, 2022
Mar 19, 2022 18:13 IST
"Our main fight is against the anti-people policies of the Union government and the rampant...
Sun, Mar 20, 2022
Mar 17, 2022 01:37 IST
On Tuesday, Dairy Farmers and Processors Welfare Organization -- the umbrella body of private and...
Thu, Mar 17, 2022
Mar 16, 2022 12:08 IST
Maharashtra is the latest state to threaten to withdraw from the Pradhan Mantri Fasal Bhima Yogna....
Thu, Mar 17, 2022
Mar 12, 2022 04:47 IST
The initial estimates given by the sugar commissioner’s office talked of 1,056 lakh tonnes of...
Sat, Mar 12, 2022
Mar 12, 2022 03:45 IST
The elections were supposed to take place any time...
Sat, Mar 12, 2022
Mar 10, 2022 10:21 IST
This uncertainty about the elections have now put the hopefuls in a quandary. Many point to the...
Thu, Mar 10, 2022
Mar 09, 2022 12:45 IST
Since the start of the Russia-Ukraine crisis, the cost of raw materials like steel and iron have...
Wed, Mar 09, 2022
Mar 05, 2022 11:22 IST
While large, medium and small scale industries have reported almost pre-Covid levels of production,...
Sat, Mar 05, 2022
Mar 05, 2022 05:09 IST
In a video which has since gone viral, Jadhav is seen saying that he does not want to be born as a...
Sat, Mar 05, 2022
Mar 04, 2022 05:30 IST
Rohan Kale explained that while the stepwells in Rajasthan and Gujarat had royal patronage, the...
Fri, Mar 04, 2022
Mar 02, 2022 12:16 IST
Post Neeraj Chopra’s Olympic gold, track and field events have caught the popular imagination but...
Thu, Mar 03, 2022
Mar 01, 2022 18:26 IST
Dr Hema Yadav, the director of Pune-based Vaikunt Mehta National Institute of Cooperative...
Tue, Mar 01, 2022
Feb 25, 2022 02:24 IST
The price of refined sunflower oil in the retail market has shot up to Rs 161.94 per litre compared...
Fri, Feb 25, 2022
Feb 24, 2022 12:29 IST
The former Soviet republic is the single-largest import destination of crude sunflower oil for...
Thu, Feb 24, 2022
Feb 23, 2022 16:30 IST
The Maharashtra government has issued a government resolution which will allow sugar mills to pay...
Thu, Feb 24, 2022