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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Op-Eds
1 June 2026

The next phase of India’s agricultural transformation must be export-oriented, standards-driven, and value-chain centric

Saurabh Bandyopadhyay, Laxmi Joshi

Improving standards compliance, institutional coordination, and farmer-market linkages is critical for enhancing India’s competitiveness in global agri-food trade India stands at a…

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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…

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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,…

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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…

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Team

<span style="position: absolute; rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px); overflow: hidden; height: 1px; width: 1px;">Bornali Bhandari</span>
Bornali Bhandari

Professor
<span style="position: absolute; rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px); overflow: hidden; height: 1px; width: 1px;">Saurabh Bandyopadhyay</span>
Saurabh Bandyopadhyay

Senior Fellow
<span style="position: absolute; rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px); overflow: hidden; height: 1px; width: 1px;">Aradhna Aggarwal</span>
Aradhna Aggarwal

Senior Advisor

<span style="position: absolute; rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px); overflow: hidden; height: 1px; width: 1px;">Charu Jain</span>
Charu Jain

Fellow
<span style="position: absolute; rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px); overflow: hidden; height: 1px; width: 1px;">Laxmi Joshi</span>
Laxmi Joshi

Fellow
<span style="position: absolute; rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px); overflow: hidden; height: 1px; width: 1px;">Ajaya Kumar Sahu</span>
Ajaya Kumar Sahu

Fellow
<span style="position: absolute; rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px); overflow: hidden; height: 1px; width: 1px;">Kemparaje Urs Subbaraje Urs</span>
Kemparaje Urs Subbaraje Urs

Associate Fellow
<span style="position: absolute; rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px); overflow: hidden; height: 1px; width: 1px;">Astha Sen</span>
Astha Sen

Fellow
<span style="position: absolute; rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px); overflow: hidden; height: 1px; width: 1px;">Nishika Pal</span>
Nishika Pal

Research Analyst
<span style="position: absolute; rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px); overflow: hidden; height: 1px; width: 1px;">Nitesh Khandelwal</span>
Nitesh Khandelwal

Research Associate
<span style="position: absolute; rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px); overflow: hidden; height: 1px; width: 1px;">Ravindar Mahto</span>
Ravindar Mahto

Research Associate
<span style="position: absolute; rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px); overflow: hidden; height: 1px; width: 1px;">Kushagra Thakral</span>
Kushagra Thakral

Research Associate
<span style="position: absolute; rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px); overflow: hidden; height: 1px; width: 1px;">Jagbir</span>
Jagbir

Research Associate
<span style="position: absolute; rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px); overflow: hidden; height: 1px; width: 1px;">Poonam Dhawan</span>
Poonam Dhawan

Research Team Assistant
<span style="position: absolute; rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px); overflow: hidden; height: 1px; width: 1px;">Shalini Aggarwal</span>
Shalini Aggarwal

Executive (Research Projects)

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