HARISH DAMODARAN

Rural Affairs and Agriculture Editor , Indian Express

Articles

Why India’s agri production stats need a ground reality check

HARISH DAMODARAN

Rural Affairs and Agriculture Editor ,

Statistics

India’s agricultural production statistics sometimes present dissonances with consumption data. The household consumer expenditure data are more than a decade old, and an update is urgently needed.

HARISH DAMODARAN

Rural Affairs and Agriculture Editor ,

Dr Verghese Kurien

Remembering Dr Verghese Kurien, the ‘Milkman of India’ who would have turned hundred today. How he built what is now a $5.3 billion-turnover dairy enterprise owned by 3.6 million farmers.

HARISH DAMODARAN

Rural Affairs and Agriculture Editor ,

Policy

Government must not sacrifice rise in farm incomes at altar of short-term consumer interest or to save RCEP.

HARISH DAMODARAN

Rural Affairs and Agriculture Editor,

Policy

It is the industry that is lobbying the hardest to keep its products out of the free trade agreement currently under negotiation among 16 countries to India’s east and north. Why is this so?

HARISH DAMODARAN

Rural Affairs and Agriculture Editor ,

Indian Dairy Industry

Subsidies for farmers shouldn’t end up benefiting consumers and depressing market prices