Ajay Vir Jakhar


Opinion
Addressing the Current Oversupply Scenario in India’s Ethanol Industry – A Call for Immediate and Balanced Policy Action

Addressing the Current Oversupply Scenario in India’s Ethanol Industry – A Call for Immediate and Balanced Policy Action

The Ethanol Blending Programme (EBP) is not just a fuel policy. It’s a rural development...

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Bioenergy and Net-Zero: Policy Momentum and Future Pathways

Bioenergy and Net-Zero: Policy Momentum and Future Pathways

India’s bioenergy journey, from cow dung gas units in the 1980s to ethanol blending,...

Opinion
Incentivise crop diversification, rationalise power subsidy to divert farmers from paddy in Punjab

Incentivise crop diversification, rationalise power subsidy to divert farmers from paddy in Punjab

The principal threat to Punjab is the cultivation of paddy which is depleting aquifers...

Opinion
Understanding social costs of e-retail and monopoly

Understanding social costs of e-retail and monopoly

What happens off the farm matters much more for farmer livelihoods than what happens...

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Power imbalances in food systems

Power imbalances in food systems

Unfortunately, since the start of the Covid-19 pandemic, there has been a greater...

Opinion
Wealthy nations call the shots at WTO

Wealthy nations call the shots at WTO

There is more than an evident correlation, and in fact causation, between the current...