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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.
Legal entitlement and price reduction apart, nothing much seems different from current targeted public distribution system
Congress seniors feel they have a poll winner in the scheme
Trai also recommended increase in the use of domestically produced equipment in telecom networks due to security reasons
Govt mulls import duty rise on RBD, raw sugar; domestic industry says not enough and wants much more
The Cabinet had already cleared the ordinance on Wednesday
Political benefits apart, with the various elections nearing, govt gets time to properly roll out scheme by year-end
Experts say this results in more rains over central India
Currently, one such train, started almost a year before, runs from Maharashtra to Delhi, largely carrying bananas
Move to save time, prevent loss of perishable commodities
Experts say too early to estimate final output
PlanCom says the new system would push officials in various departments to compete among themselves to prove their worth
States with the worst market distortion procure over 60% of the crop
The reserve price for the export of two lots of wheat - 2 and 2.5 million tonnes - was fixed at $228 a tonne and $300 a tonne, respectively
The matter is being taken up in the light of widespread damage to life and property in the flash floods and cloudbursts in Uttarakhand
May discuss the long-awaited plan to corporatise state-run Delhi Milk Scheme
CCEA may also discuss proposal from agriculture ministry to increase MSP of paddy
Reaction to surge in applications, seemingly to hide identity as chit funds
Q&A with DR L.S. Rathore, Director General of IMD
Among pulses, sowing has started before time in Karnataka, Gujarat, Tamil Nadu, West Bengal and Odisha