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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.
The proposed NIB has run into rough weather following strong opposition from the ministry of environment and forests
Rajya Sabha is expected to take up debate on FDI in multi-brand retail and amendments to FEMA tomorrow
Punjab and Haryana levy taxes at the rate of 14.5% and 11.5% for every quintal of wheat purchased
Govt should immediately abolish the levy sugar mechanism, says sugar mill body
International prices will enable the government to halve export subsidy on wheat to less than Rs 500 crore in 2012-13
Delayed harvest of the previous paddy crop responsible
A similar proposal to raise the retail price of sugar was deferred in September because of absence of food and consumer affairs minister KV Thomas
Wants open-ended procurement changed, especially in states levying high output taxes
The development comes as the issue of FDI in multi-brand retail continues to divide political parties
Mustard seed is the biggest oilseed grown in Indian during the rabi season
The debate is likely to begin around 2 p.m.
Sugar mills, who are the major suppliers of ethanol said that OMCs would need to procure around 88 crore litres of ethanol
On Wednesday, the Lok Sabha defeated two resolutions that sought to block foreign investment in multi-brand stores
Demand pressure would be more on available supplies of edible oils and pulses. Potato production growth would be well below the trend