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A Record Maize Crop Will Not Make India a Hyaluronic Acid Producer. The World’s Entire Supply Fits Inside 13,000 Tonnes of Grain
Saturday, November 07, 2026
Cosmetic-grade hyaluronic acid is fermented from glucose, and India has a 55.093 million tonne maize crop trading below its support pri...
Read the piece →The Chessboard and India's Granaries
Wednesday, November 04, 2026
Where a record harvest, 918 lakh tonnes of storage and the world's oldest compounding puzzle meet Updated 4 November 2026. Added the b...
Read the piece →India Doesn’t Need a Blockchain to Pay Its Farmers. It May Need One to Agree on Who Owns the Land
Tuesday, November 03, 2026
A small open-source project models farmer payments on a ledger. Tested against where Indian payments actually fail (PM-KISAN’s benefici...
Read the piece →Rice and Maize Became Ethanol Commodities With a Price, a Buyer and a Warehouse. Straw Has Only the Buyer
Wednesday, October 28, 2026
India built its ethanol programme by giving grain a guaranteed buyer, a price fixed in advance, a market and warehouse finance. Biomass...
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Umashankar Triplicane Dwarakanathan
Investment Promotion & Energy-Sector Leader · Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India