Agriculture, Industry, Trade, Technology & Skills

Agriculture, Industry, Trade, Technology & Skills

To improve delivery of services through technology, enhancing trade, and reaping demographic dividend India needs to invest in better understanding of challenges and opportunities in trade, technology, and skilling. Additionally, quicker development of the agricultural and allied rural sectors continues to remain a priority for achieving the objectives of higher growth and poverty reduction through better income and employment opportunities.

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Business Expectations Survey
21 April 2026

The NCAER Business Expectations Survey for India Fourth Quarter 2025–26

The National Council of Applied Economic Research (NCAER), one of India’s premier economic policy research think tanks, carried out the 136th Round…

Op-Eds
20 April 2026

Decentralised water conservation structures are critical for India, not as substitutes, but as complements to large irrigation systems

Saurabh Bandyopadhyay, Laxmi Joshi, Charu Jain + 1

The future of irrigation lies not in choosing between the big and the small, but in integrating the two within a coherent,…

Op-Eds
7 April 2026

Canals in a warming world: Why irrigation is India’s quiet climate infrastructure

Saurabh Bandyopadhyay, Pradip Biswas, Laxmi Joshi + 3

In a warming world, the value of irrigation lies not only in what it produces, but in the uncertainty it removes. In…

External Pub
4 April 2026

Budget 2026–27 and Coping with the Emerging Economic Challenge

Sudipto Mundle, Ajaya Kumar Sahu

Stable fiscal ratios, high growth and low inflation portray India as a haven of stability and calm in a very turbulent world….

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