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.
Dec 18, 2016 03:39 IST
Trade in perishable agricultural goods such as vegetables has seen a significant slide since last...
Sun, Dec 18, 2016
Dec 18, 2016 03:14 IST
Over the past several months, onions were being sold at Rs 7 per kg in the Lasalgaon wholesale...
Sun, Dec 18, 2016
Dec 15, 2016 05:06 IST
On Wednesday, the maximum price of tomatoes at the Pune marketyard was Rs 600 per quintal, a drop...
Thu, Dec 15, 2016
Dec 12, 2016 04:44 IST
The price war is led by private millers in Marathwada, while both cooperative and private mills are...
Mon, Dec 12, 2016
Dec 10, 2016 04:55 IST
Organisers of Kisan, an annual fair which begins next week in Pune, said they had seen a marked...
Sat, Dec 10, 2016
Dec 07, 2016 01:28 IST
While the DCCBs only dispense a little over 30 per cent of the state’s outlay in crop loans (both...
Wed, Dec 07, 2016
Dec 02, 2016 00:55 IST
Union leader of Maharashtra sugar mills workers, Tatyasaheb Kale, said neither the mills nor the...
Fri, Dec 02, 2016
Nov 22, 2016 00:00 IST
RBI’s ban on DCCBs has plunged the farmers into a financial...
Tue, Nov 22, 2016
Nov 20, 2016 01:08 IST
DCC banks, which were financiers to the sugar mills, also acted as bankers to the farmers and...
Sun, Nov 20, 2016
Nov 17, 2016 02:21 IST
Farmers are facing the heat from both collapse of demand and inability to purchase inputs...
Thu, Nov 17, 2016
Nov 17, 2016 01:17 IST
After the announcement, DCC banks had seen people exchanging cash as well as depositing their money...
Thu, Nov 17, 2016
Nov 14, 2016 03:59 IST
The State Bank of India, Maharashtra Gramin Bank and Nanded District Cooperative Bank have branches...
Mon, Nov 14, 2016
Nov 13, 2016 01:38 IST
Given their ease of doing business, many small traders such as vegetable vendors and auto drivers...
Sun, Nov 13, 2016
Oct 21, 2016 05:09 IST
Units dealing in scrap material and small chemical units often function without licenses and do not...
Fri, Oct 21, 2016
Aug 22, 2016 00:37 IST
Fully-computerised systems and minimal human interference, officers say, have helped in checking...
Mon, Aug 22, 2016
Aug 12, 2016 00:35 IST
Last month, the state had decided to delist fruits and vegetables from the APMCs, which technically...
Fri, Aug 12, 2016
Aug 11, 2016 00:44 IST
Both Ola and Uber defended the surge pricing on their platforms as means to make vehicles available...
Thu, Aug 11, 2016
Aug 04, 2016 03:22 IST
The poultry industry braces itself for import competition after India loses case at WTO...
Thu, Aug 04, 2016
Jul 27, 2016 00:36 IST
The marketing reforms ushered in by the state government has drawn serious flak from traders who...
Wed, Jul 27, 2016
Jul 20, 2016 00:14 IST
The issue of recovery of commission from the buyers has irked the retailers who since Sunday have...
Wed, Jul 20, 2016
Jul 13, 2016 15:26 IST
Shetti had come to the Pune Marketyard and facilitated the sale of over 200 vehicle loads of green...
Wed, Jul 13, 2016
Jul 08, 2016 01:26 IST
However, pictures of the donors to the Chief Minister’s Relief Fund put up on Fadnavis’s...
Fri, Jul 08, 2016Apr 06, 2016 00:31 IST
While only a handful of mills are operating in the state, the total unpaid dues to growers is to...
Wed, Apr 06, 2016
Apr 06, 2016 00:23 IST
This is a sharp rise as compared to last year's report where only two Pune-based institutions were...
Wed, Apr 06, 2016
Apr 05, 2016 00:49 IST
With 43.70 per cent of the RTI applications rejected, the bank has the third highest rejection rate...
Tue, Apr 05, 2016