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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.
Q&A with Director General of India Meteorological Department
Deputy Chairman Montek Singh Ahluwalia, one of the most trusted lieutenants of Singh, has prepared a full note on performance of this Commission
Will give truer reflection on price movements of food products, impact of cereal procurement prices
Apparently, the US administration has also shortlisted two more names
The new index will have a base year of 2009-10, against the current base year of 2004-05
Party assures farmers of a minimum support price equivalent to 50 per cent more than their cost of production
Associates say Bose always tried to make complex things simple and understandable
FCI purchases huge quantities of maize as prices drop
Interview with Economist
Study also says MGNREGA workers spent almost 21 minute less in collecting each payment made electronically compared with manual transfer
Michael Greenstone of MIT says almost 6.28 mn population in 281 districts of India is exposed to health risks due to poor adherence to pollution standards
The verdict, says Union rural development minister Jairam Ramesh, provides a needed clarity on a contentious area
Oilseeds, maize minimum support prices unchanged
India could see a massive surge in food prices like the one after the 2009 drought
The environment ministry might have approved field trials for 11 genetically-modified crops, but several hurdles remain before these crops become a commercial reality. For one, the trials cannot be he
Anti-GM activists want EC to intervene in the matter, as nod for GM came just before polls
Revisiting targets must as investment in infrastructure, a critical area of growth, has been much slower