Kulvinder Singh @kullugulia

Sandipan Baksi ( @SandipanBaksi ), Director, Foundation for Agrarian Studies (FAS), Sai Chandan Kotu ( @sai_kotu ), Senior Research Assistant, FAS, and Tapas Modak ( @tmodak89 ), Joint Director, FAS, recently published an article in The Hindu Business Line titled “Digital agriculture in India: Problems of inclusion.” Read the article here: thehindubusinessline.com/opinion/digita… The article highlights the need to improve digital infrastructure and digital literacy among farmers to improve access to farm schemes and advance digital agriculture in rural India.

The Little Boy is here. El Nino has set in, officially. 63% chance of a very-strong El Nino, as per the latest forecast from NOAA (noaa.gov/news-release/e…) So, what does a 'super' El Nino mean for India? Laying out the risks in this @livemint Long Story Key takeaways: 1. A strong El Nino persisting through March next year means the summer of 2027 could get very very hot and dry (see latest NOAA chart). Drinking water shortages in pockets is a strong possibility. 2. There is no perfect correlation between the strength of El Nino and the quantum of monsoon rainfall deficit- only in 3 out of 6 strong El Nino years since 1951, did the Indian monsoon record a deficit of 10% or more (see chart1)- so all is not bleak yet 4. Distribution of monsoon rainfall will be critical for Kharif crops- but resilience of Indian agriculture to deficit rains has improved greatly over the past few decades (see chart2)- but be ready to pay more for vegetables, cooking oils etc 5. Keep a close watch on Indian Ocean Dipole, currently in a neutral state, which can offset some of the negative impacts of a very strong El Nino 6. As a senior scientist said: El Nino is like a terrific fast bowler. But much will depend on the pitch it bowls on. So, fingers crossed! Read more: livemint.com/economy/el-nin…

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I wouldn't have counted Gurgaon as a place with great mutton - until a friend introduced me to Parat, a Mughlai cloud kitchen with a tiny dine-in. The meat fell off the lamb chops, the khameeri naans fluffy, the spice mix is balanced all through. Giving fine-dines a run!

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The great Indian oil spill: a cold-pressed-to-refined thriller Indian consumers footed a staggering Rs 1.72 lakh crore bill in FY26 to import cooking oils. This year, the bill may surpass Rs 2 lakh cr. This is way more than the entire annual budget of the agriculture ministry. And unlike imported fertilizers and crude oil, no one shields consumers when global cooking oil prices spike. India imports 60% of its cooking oil needs now. But in the early 1990s, India had achieved a brief period of atmanirbharta. Then it lost the plot to cheap palm. Then to high-yielding GM or transgenic soy- that it imports in large quantities and consumes, but won't allow its farmers to plant. With its atmanirbharta, India is also losing a part of its culinary heritage. Kachhi-ghani desi oils making way for solvent extracted foreign oils. Misery for local mustard, groundnut, sesame, soy growers who switched to other profitable crops like rice, maize, horticulture etc. Yet, there's more to the story which involves the legendary Verghese Kurien of Amul fame. With some arson, deaths and conspiracy theories thrown in. Borrowing Kurien's words, a final question: Who are the "scoundrels" who got us here? @livemint Long Story. Read here: livemint.com/industry/manuf…

85% of India's children in the 6-23 month age group do not receive an 'adequate' diet 32% children under-5 yrs age underweight: NFHS-6 Whither Viksit Bharat? Pipe dream for a country which is unable to provide for its youngest? Photo: Barmer, Rajasthan, 2024.

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I have reviewed "The Economics of Gender in China: Women, Work and the Glass Ceiling," by Sisi Sung, and has been published in Feminist Economics, Volume 32, Issue 1. It is now available to access via Taylor & Francis Online url6649.tandfonline.com/ls/click?upn=u…

Public Good Alert 🚨 If you’ve ever spent hours merging messy admin datasets reconciling districts/subdistricts splits,merges, or renaming, well, no more! we(I,@harikv73,@asad__tariq) have built adminlineage, a Py package that uses AI to solve this #AI pypi.org/project/adminl…

@singhshivam3011 This story has remained same beyond this period. You can read this here - share.google/8a5RGgIcb60OUa…

@indiaemerges Had created a product containing granular data on organised and unorganised industrial data in India with plenty of features. Available at enterprisetracker.ceda.ashoka.edu.in

We are pleased to share the release of a major open data resource on Harvard Dataverse: Indian Census Data Collection, 1901–2026: Digitised Subnational Population and Administrative Datasets DOI: doi.org/10.7910/DVN/ON… #OpenData #India #Census #SocialScience What’s included? • Population time series (1901–2011)- Census A02 (cleaned and strcutured) • first time digitization of Primary Census Abstract tables (state & district level)-1961, 1971, and 1981 • 2026 subdistrict-level administrative directory linked to census data (2011) #DataInfrastructure #ResearchData

ASI covers organised manufacturing, while ASUSE spans manufacturing, trade, and services in the unorganised sector. The Enterprise Tracker harmonises both for comparable analysis of manufacturing industries across formal and informal enterprises, a unique feature of the tracker.

The CEDA Enterprise Tracker unlocks insights like these by letting you compare regional industry profiles (combination of state + sector + industry) across 14 common ASI and ASUSE variables.

How does GVA per worker (constant prices) in Leather and Textile industries compare between organised vs unorganised enterprises in urban Uttar Pradesh? And how does total output of Wood & Cork enterprises differ across sectors in rural Himachal Pradesh?

Try it yourself - enterprisetracker.ceda.ashoka.edu.in @CedaAshoka

Our choropleth maps visualise interstate variation, benchmark states against the national average, and highlight highest & lowest values at a glance.

Use bar charts to see how states perform across years for any combination of data facets, or track selected states over time. View top 10 / bottom 10 states for any year.

Shall discuss a few aspects of the interplay of agricultural technology and the socio-economic structure in the Indian countryside, in a talk scheduled today, 1500 Hrs. Please join if interested.

Foundation for Agrarian Studies @fasagristudies

5 months ago

Dr. Sandipan Baksi ( @SandipanBaksi ), Director at the Foundation for Agrarian Studies, will examine how agrarian structures shape the adoption, reach, and socio-economic impact of modern agricultural technologies in rural India. Join the MSc Development Practice Masterclass

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Discover long-term trends through line chart visualisations across multiple enterprise indicators. Compare up to 5 states at a time for clear insights without visual clutter.

tremendous learning experience along the way too! All the way from deep dive into each survey, data extraction at scale, tens of code reruns for estimates, thinking about the product roadmap, functional & consistent design language and engineering. @kullugulia @KaranMehta9416

Kulvinder Singh @kullugulia

5 months ago

We built it, tested it, and we finally shipped. 🚀 Spent months deep in the data for the Enterprise Tracker, and I’m thrilled to see it live. Check out the trends we've uncovered: enterprisetracker.ceda.ashoka.edu.in

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Two primary modes of using the app. 1. The main dashboard allows users to drill down across 36 variables (both ASI & ASUSE) and filter data by geographies, sectors, broad activity groups and industries. For price-related variables, obtain both current and constant values.