The Hindu Business Line : Tuesday, July 16, 2002

Rubber down on selling pressure
RUBBER prices declined on Monday following selling pressure from the small traders who brought their consignments from suburban centres. While the supply position improved the buyers stayed back without pressing the orders though they wanted ... More

Rubber procurement norms amended
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The State Government has notified amendments to the guidelines for procurement and export of rubber. An official spokesman said that changes incorporated in the norms required that the prescribed agencies shall procure ... More

COTTON

Monsanto gains early-bird advantage in cotton hybrids market
MONSANTO'S Bt cotton may have made a quiet beginning in the farmers' fields this season. But it has triggered off a seemingly inevitable process of consolidation in the 10 million packets per year cotton hybrid seeds business. Currently, the ... More

World cotton meet calls for collaboration
THE venue for the negotiation of reductions in Government measures that distort cotton production and trade is the World Trade Organisation (WTO) and in order to advance the interests of agricultural trade liberalisation, countries must unify and ... More

SILK

Plea to hike silk import duty

OILSEEDS & EDIBLE OIL

June edible oil imports up
MUMBAI: Vegetable oil imports during June 2002 continued to remain relatively strong with 4.33 lakh tonnes. Imports comprised in the main 2.52 lt of crude palm oil, 20,500 tonnes of crude palmolein and 1.60 lt of degummed soyabean oil, ... More

SPICES & CONDIMENTS

Spice market
A casual worker transporting spices in a hand-cart at Mattanchery in Kerala. High labour wages in the State are forcing many traders to move out to non-traditional areas. ... More

COMMODITIES MARKETS

Truant monsoon reflects on commodity markets
THE aberrant behaviour of the southwest monsoon has started to exert its impact on the country's agricultural operations and is seen provoking the commodity markets. Inadequate rains in most parts of the country covering the southern, central ... More

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