Sanjeeb Mukherjee is a journalist with over 20 years of experience covering various news beats, mainly in the agriculture, commodities, rural, and food policy space. He has worked at several places, including United News of India (UNI), Dow Jones Newswires, and Financial Express. Currently, he is working as the Agriculture Editor at Business Standard. His work has taken him to some of the most remote areas of the country, allowing him to gain invaluable insights into the dynamics of rural agriculture markets. He has honed his skills in analysing and providing commentary on India's farm sector policies, focusing on their impact on different stakeholders and their implications for climate change.
Sanjeeb Mukherjee is a journalist with over 20 years of experience covering various news beats, mainly in the agriculture, commodities, rural, and food policy space. He has worked at several places, including United News of India (UNI), Dow Jones Newswires, and Financial Express. Currently, he is working as the Agriculture Editor at Business Standard. His work has taken him to some of the most remote areas of the country, allowing him to gain invaluable insights into the dynamics of rural agriculture markets. He has honed his skills in analysing and providing commentary on India's farm sector policies, focusing on their impact on different stakeholders and their implications for climate change.
Around 6.5 million farmers grow cotton in India, which is the world's second-largest producer and consumer of the commodity
Industry experts anticipate a shift back to sugarcane-based molasses as the primary feedstock for ethanol production next year, driven by expected surplus sugar supplies and calls to lift restrictions
A good kharif harvest will go a long way in cooling food inflation by increasing supply of staples such as rice. It will also ensure adequate soil moisture for a healthy rabi harvest
Urges KVKs to spread awareness about the new seeds every month among farmers
Total financial provision 27 per cent lower than FY25 Budget Estimates
These would be at the existing per unit assistance levels of Rs 120,000 in the plains and Rs 130,000 in the hills
Experts say imports likely to double in next 5 yrs if policies remain unchanged
The states at yield risk till a few years back accounted for less than 20 per cent of India's annual rice production
India has over 24,000 functional FPOs established under the Companies Act as of March 31, 2023, with many of them being set up in recent years under the Central scheme to promote and form 10,000 FPOs
Replying to a Parliament question, Chouhan said that earlier farmers had to wait for their claims unless both the Centre and states released their share of the premium subsidy
Opposition Congress accuses Centre of misleading Parliament on the MSP issue
The minister also said the agriculture sector was ignored, and priorities were misplaced during the Congress rule
September may get more rain than August; monsoon poised for a break from August 8
July and August are usually considered lean months for the scheme in terms of demand for work as agricultural activities are in full swing in the rural parts of the country
In the case of HT rice, the technology that the JV will commercialize is called 'FullPage' which is a new generation double stack mutant herbicide-tolerant rice technology
The confirmation for Glanders in the horses was given by the ICAR-National Research Centre for Equines, Hisar, and the National Referral Laboratory for Glanders
This means that around 39.3 million people have come out of undernourishment between the two periods, NITI Aayog member Ramesh Chand said on Tuesday
But PM-AASHA allocation indicates otherwise
The resolution assumes significance as the RSS is also the ideological fountainhead of the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)
Kharif sowing of all crops is over in almost 74 per cent of the normal area, which is the average area covered in the last five years