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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 Planning Commission deputy cgairman Montek Singh Ahluwalia
Reccommends use of silo bags to meet temporary storage needs during harvest season
For the first six months of the 2012-13 marketing season starting October 2012, the government had fixed a free-sale quota of 11 mt
Now, the millers will be free to sell sugar in open market as per their cash flow requirements, market conditions and individual commercial considerations
The output during 2012-13 kharif season expected to be almost 9.8% less than the kharif production of 2011-12
Now, the millers will be free to sell sugar in open market as per their cash flow requirements, market conditions and individual commercial considerations
The output during 2012-13 kharif season expected to be almost 9.8% less than the kharif production of 2011-12
Would help develop drought-resistant, disease-proof chickpea varieties
Budget may keep the Plan expenditure at Rs 5.47 lakh crore for 2013-14 against Rs 5.21 lakh crore for this financial year
Move follows repeated instances of distress sale of cereals despite a steady rise in Minimum Support Price
Interview with Deputy Chairman, Planning Commission
Parliament's Standing Committee also proposed the State Food Commissions be vested with powers to check the quality of foodgrains before delivery from the central government
Disinvestment money to be used for bank recapitalisation and subscribing to CPSE shares, Cabinet slated to take up the proposal today
Serious storage problem ahead as another bumper wheat crop expected
Farm ministry wants to devise a just minimum support price for FY14 kharif marketing season
Export of edible oil was prohibited for a period of one year from 2008
The 12th Plan document describes three average annual growth scenarios - 8%, 6-6.5% and 5-5.5%
Q&A with Visiting Research Associate, Oxford University