Financial Daily from THE HINDU group of publications
Wednesday, April 09, 2003
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AGRI-BIZ & COMMODITIES AQUACULTURE HLL acquires Amalgam's cooked shrimp business IN a yet another measure to move down the value added chain, Hindustan Lever Ltd (HLL) on Tuesday announced that it has acquired the cooked shrimp and pasteurised crabmeat business of Kerala-based Amalgam group of companies on a going concern ... More INSIGHT 
Do farmers have friends?Laying the blame for much of the farm sector's ills at the door of the Congress, Sharad Joshi says the party leader, Mrs Sonia Gandhi, is on weak wicket blaming the non-Congress regimes. The latter, he says, are guilty by complicity as they sh owed little courage in changing the policies set largely in the Nehru and Indira Gandhi eras. More FLORICULTURE Nisargotsav promises `healthy' bloom this year NISARGOTSAV expo promises a different kind of bloom this year at the Lalbagh Botanical Gardens. The expo-cum-seminar will showcase medicinal plants and the therapeutic goodness of vegetables, fruits and flowers for five days from April ... More
Lalbagh to get facelift with thematic shows
HORTICULTURE/FRUITS & VEGETABLES `Assured market vital for vanilla' WHILE farmers are enthusiastically taking up vanilla cultivation in Kerala, Karnataka and some parts of Tamil Nadu, given the prevailing lucrative price, experts are sceptical about its marketing in the future. Lack of assured market either ... More INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY I've got the flavour! The electronic tongue promises to revolutionise the tea-tasting process and could well become the flavour of the future. More POLICY Parliament okays amendments to commodities Act THE Rajya Sabha on Tuesday passed amendments to the Essential Commodities Act, 1955, aimed at strengthening the regulated release mechanism for supply of free sale sugar. The Union Minister of Food, Consumer Affairs and Public Distribution, Mr ... More RUBBER Rubber declines as arrivals rise RUBBER prices declined on improved arrival. Neither the tyre sector nor the non-tyre sector was keen to make any purchase. Market sources told Business Line that after a buoyant trend last week, fear that price may fall pushed the ... More FOODGRAINS Cereal prices may dip on good supply WORLD cereal production in 2003 is forecast to rise to 1,895 million tonnes, 62 mt more than the poor 2002 harvest and above the average of past five years. The forecast utilisation in 2002-03 stands marginally below the level of the previous ... More AGRICULTURAL INSTITUTIONS Agriculture market fee collections rise DESPITE the prevailing drought conditions, there has been a substantial increase in the market fee proceeds of the Agricultural Market Committee of Hyderabad (AMCH) during 2002-03. AMCH had collected a market fee of Rs 10 crore last fiscal as ... More COIR Consortia bind coir cluster together The practice of leaving everything to the Government to find solutions was altered. Instead, like-minded entrepreneurs joined hands to meet the challenges of an emerging market-led economy. More EVENTS `Integrated plant breeding to come into vogue' PLANT breeding in future will integrate fully with agricultural research specifically and with biological, engineering and medical research generally. "Design of plants may become as routine as the design of clothing. Beyond the issues of fit ... More CO-OPERATIVES Amul claims Mother Dairy trademark — `13-day gap' puts NDDB in a spin THE Rs 2,747-crore Gujarat Co-operative Milk Marketing Federation (GCMMF), the owner of the Amul brand, has sought to rewrite the script for the National Dairy Development Board (NDDB) by making clear that it has the first lien on the Mother ... More Comments & Letters to the Editor to: bleditor@thehindu.co.in Subscribe to: Business Line |
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Top Stories In Focus Run-up to Budget Kelkar Report Bottled water: How safe is it? Telecom Competition Oil PSUs: Disinvestment dilemma Housing Fin. rate war: Bonanza for consumers! NPAs in Banking In Depth Simple Economics Consumer Notes Tax Talk The Brahmananda collections NRIs & Investment Avenues Corporate Governance Gold: Still the winner? Cars: Always a beauty Books and Reviews Looking back Mar. 30-Apr. 5 Financing the value chain in agriculture Manila bars Indian rice from global tenders Sweet Plan, ambitious target MPEDA alert against infected shrimp seeds — Stocks with white spot virus brought from Bangladesh Food and Fertiliser subsidies — Major drag on farm sector growth Rubber stocks dip on higher offtake — 30,000-tonne imports likely by tyre makers before August Punjab enters contract farming for basmati rice Ajit slams high interest rates for farm sector — `Subsidies at input levels help make prices competitive' Incidence of cancer quite high in India |
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