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.
Feb 20, 2022 11:14 IST
Till Saturday evening, 456 poultry birds were culled within a 1-km radius of the epicentre of the...
Sun, Feb 20, 2022
Feb 16, 2022 01:32 IST
Historically, the cooperative banks have cornered the major chunk of credit disbursal for rural...
Wed, Feb 16, 2022
Feb 12, 2022 19:12 IST
Sudhir Mehta, president of the Mahratta Chamber of Commerce Industries and Agriculture (MCCIA),...
Sun, Feb 13, 2022
Feb 12, 2022 15:50 IST
By securing an impressive 99.07 percentile in the National Eligibility cum Entrance Test (NEET),...
Sat, Feb 12, 2022
Feb 10, 2022 04:54 IST
Trends of the present fiscal, that is 2021-22, show that till date, 11.57 crore people had applied...
Thu, Feb 10, 2022
Feb 05, 2022 14:45 IST
Welcoming the Centre’s move to engage agri-tech firms, industry players said it will allow them...
Sat, Feb 05, 2022
Feb 01, 2022 16:58 IST
In her budget speech, Sitharaman said that chemical-free farming will be promoted throughout the...
Tue, Feb 01, 2022
Jan 29, 2022 13:32 IST
Prashant Girbane, Director General of Mahratta Chambers of Commerce Industries and Agriculture...
Sat, Jan 29, 2022
Jan 24, 2022 17:46 IST
Dairy farmers use frozen semen straws to artificially inseminate (AI) their female animals. The...
Mon, Jan 24, 2022
Jan 24, 2022 16:42 IST
Local representatives have had meetings with the Maharashtra State Electricity Distribution Company...
Mon, Jan 24, 2022
Jan 23, 2022 04:48 IST
Many mills have taken the clause offered in the Sugarcane Control Order, 1966, to sign agreements...
Sun, Jan 23, 2022
Jan 20, 2022 17:56 IST
A teacher with Beed Zilla Parishad’s school in the village of Kasarwadi in Parli taluka, Phutke...
Thu, Jan 20, 2022
Jan 19, 2022 13:57 IST
🔴 The phytosanitary inspector, who oversees the process of irradiation of mangoes, has not been...
Thu, Jan 20, 2022
Jan 19, 2022 06:33 IST
A pilot project to track the migration of children (0-18 years), pregnant and lactating women is...
Wed, Jan 19, 2022
Jan 17, 2022 15:59 IST
Jat farmers, especially in western UP, are a politically powerful group, and are very important to...
Tue, Jan 18, 2022
Jan 15, 2022 16:53 IST
Instead of just milk, this joint venture promotes commercial usage of cow dung and urine which can...
Sun, Jan 16, 2022
Jan 14, 2022 04:49 IST
To date, 44.26 lakh farmers in the state have received Rs 2,501.66 crore in way of compensation for...
Fri, Jan 14, 2022
Jan 13, 2022 07:01 IST
🔴 Restrictions were imposed even though medical specialists and virologists said the third wave...
Thu, Jan 13, 2022
Jan 12, 2022 22:46 IST
Estimates both by the industry and the sugar commissioner’s office had put the cane availability...
Thu, Jan 13, 2022
Jan 12, 2022 04:23 IST
Till date, 359 companies have been listed on BSE’s SME platform with capital raised to the tune...
Wed, Jan 12, 2022
Jan 11, 2022 05:35 IST
Belying all predictions, prices of soyabean and tur (both important kharif crops) have held steady;...
Tue, Jan 11, 2022
Jan 10, 2022 14:39 IST
The solution is to promote a science-based policy and regulatory ecosystem which incentivises...
Mon, Jan 10, 2022
Jan 09, 2022 05:26 IST
According to experts, in the coming days, the total number of cases due to Omicron could be around...
Sun, Jan 09, 2022
Jan 09, 2022 02:39 IST
If farmers are confident of better prices, the textile lobby mainly from the south Indian states...
Sun, Jan 09, 2022
Jan 06, 2022 04:50 IST
🔴 Nashik, Pune, Ahmednagar, Sangli and some parts of Marathwada are the main growing centres for...
Thu, Jan 06, 2022