Ramesh Chand

Ramesh Chand is member of the National Institution for Transforming India, NITI Aayog, Government of India, and Chairman of the Institute of Economic Growth, New Delhi. He is also member of the Policy Advisory Council (PAC) of the Australian Center for International Agricultural Research (ACIAR). He has also been a consultant for international organisations such as FAO, UNDP, ESCAP, UNCTAD, the Commonwealth and the World Bank. He has a Ph.D. in agricultural economics from the Indian Agricultural Research Institute (IARI), New Delhi.

Ramesh Chand

Centenary of 'Father of Green Revolution' who worried about its future

MS Swaminathan's contributions extend far beyond the Green Revolution

Updated On: 22 Aug 2025 | 7:18 PM IST

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Lessons from soybean: Time to broaden India's biotech push in crops

India needs to develop its biotechnology capacity for crops like soybean as it has done for rice

Updated On: 20 May 2025 | 10:23 PM IST

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Trump tariffs: India needs short- and medium-term agricultural trade plans

From 2022 to 2024, India earned $5.75 bn per year from agri-export to the US, which constituted one-tenth of India's agri exports to the world. In the same period, India imported agricultural product

Updated On: 27 Mar 2025 | 11:56 PM IST

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Reimagining agriculture's role in economic development and growth

An agriculture worker in China generates merely one-fourth of the income generated by a non-agricultural worker. India and Vietnam are close to China while Indonesia shows lower disparity

Updated On: 07 Nov 2024 | 10:56 PM IST

MS Swaminathan: A visionary scientist, staunch advocate of farmers' welfare

The formidable agriculture scientist's vision can be of help in the challenges Indian agriculture faces now

Updated On: 28 Sep 2023 | 9:48 PM IST

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Prof Abhijit Sen: A lifelong champion of the poor and marginalised

Coined the term 'technology fatigue' in relation to agriculture

Updated On: 30 Aug 2022 | 2:47 PM IST

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Dealing with crop residue burning

Blaming farmers will not solve the problem. Stopping free power for irrigation and the transfer of the same subsidy to farmers in other forms alone will make a significant difference

Updated On: 21 Nov 2019 | 9:36 PM IST

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Improved equity, wider coverage

How PM-KISAN scores over loan waivers and Rythu Bandhu

Updated On: 05 Feb 2019 | 10:51 PM IST