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