Parashram Patil

Crops of Conflict

As water and climate become instruments of geopolitical leverage, India has an opportunity to turn agricultural resilience into a new form of South-South diplomacy. Climate change is making an old...
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The Buffalo Billion

India’s vast dairy economy has turned ageing livestock into a $5-billion export engine and a new instrument of South-South trade. India’s enormous livestock economy is capable of sustaining both large-scale...
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Sugar Rush, Structural Hangover

India’s sugar crisis is less about one bad season than about the uneasy trade-offs between food, fuel, water and farm incomes India’s latest sugar-price shock is a reminder that agricultural...
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The Farm Goes Quantum

From monsoon prediction to smarter supply chains, quantum computing could give Maharashtra’s agriculture a new technological edge. AI generated image Indian agriculture is approaching the limits of what conventional computing...
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Why India’s Farms Need Smarter AI

Predictive and agentic intelligence can identify vulnerable farmers early, coordinate timely interventions and make agricultural supply chains more resilient. India’s artificial intelligence conversation has largely focused on productivity. Policymakers speak...
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Maharashtra’s Agri Leap into Europe

The next big opportunity for Maharashtra’s farmers may not lie only in bigger harvests, but in smarter markets. As India and the European Union move towards a Free Trade Agreement...
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The Plough and the Spreadsheet

While global farm policy obsesses over land, capital and climate, it still ignores the health of the person behind the plough. The world’s agricultural debates have acquired an oddly abstract...
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From Mud to Money

The global carbon market is quietly undergoing a profound transformation. For years, companies eager to offset emissions favoured inexpensive carbon credits generated by projects that merely avoided future emissions. Increasingly,...
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Mitigating Farm Suicides

The Farmer Health Capital theory reframes physical and mental well-being as productive economic assets, offering a preventive alternative to India's reactive farm policies. For decades, India’s policy interventions aimed at...
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The Hidden Subsidy in Global Agriculture

The economics of agricultural trade has rested on a convenient assumption that labour is a factor of production, much like land or capital. Workers appear in equations as an ‘input,’...
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The Economics of Exhaustion

For decades, India’s economic planners have built elaborate models to estimate the returns on irrigation projects and farm mechanisation. Yet one critical asset remains largely invisible in the national balance...
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Credit Scores for Farmer Health

India’s rural co-operatives are undergoing the biggest technological overhaul in their history. More than 61,000 Primary Agricultural Credit Societies (PACS) have now been integrated into a unified digital ERP platform...
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