The Hindu Business Line : Monday, July 01, 2002

Fishermen ready for fishing despite ban
Farmer fishermen of Nedumudi, a village off Alappuzha, get ready to go fishing in a traditional boat twice the size of normal boats. The Government has banned non-traditional boats such as trawlers and motorboats from fishing during the monsoon. ... More

PESTICIDES

FAO working on monocrotophos ban
THE Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) and United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) are trying to bring in a consensus among various nations to either ban or restrict the use of the chemical monocrotophos. The consensus is likely to be ... More

TEA

Demand for leaf teas at Kochi sale
A MIXED trend persisted for almost all varieties of tea at the Kochi tea auction. Though the leaf varieties witnessed a good general demand, it was comparatively low for dust category. There was a less general demand in the dust category and ... More

FOODGRAINS

Global grain production to scale new peak
DESPITE a slight setback to production prospects in recent weeks, global grain production in 2002-03 could still show an improvement over 2001-02 and, indeed set a new record. Subject to normal weather in principal growing regions of the ... More

COTTON

Cotton futures may move down
Cotton futures on the New York Cotton Exchange on Friday skyrocketed above this week's peak, and the most-active contract managed to settle at a one-year high. Among other supporting factors were the US dollar, slump and the strength in the ... More

Seeds, loans disbursed to TN contract cotton farmers
THE first batch of cotton farmers from Pollachi who have joined the integrated cotton cultivation programme (ICCP) or the contract farming promoted by the local ginning company, Appachi Cotton Company (ACC), were offered farm loans and seeds to ... More

TOBACCO

Tobacco output, exports set to rise
WITH global production expected to trail consumption for the third year in a row, world-ending stocks of raw tobacco are set to decline by a fifth to one of the lowest levels. However, India is expected to buck the trend in major origins with ... More

STANDARDS & BENCHMARKS

`India must be assertive at Codex forum'
INDIA should make its position felt at the international forum of Codex in formulating standards for food, Dr S.R. Gupta, Assistant Director-General of the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, has said. In his keynote address at the workshop ... More

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