The Hindu Business Line : Saturday, May 17, 2003

IPSTA to turn multi-commodity bourse
THE India Pepper and Spice Trade Association (IPSTA) is set to become a multi-commodity exchange soon as it is expected to get the green signal in this regard from the Forward Markets Commission this month. IPSTA, which had set up the ... More

HORTICULTURE/FRUITS & VEGETABLES

Good crop, low prices mark mango season
HEAVY arrivals and low prices have marked the mango season at the Nunna marketyard this summer, the problem having been aggravated by the truckers' strike in April. The season would draw to a close by the end of the first week of June. The ... More

RUBBER

Rubber prices move further
THE rubber market move up again on account of sparse arrival. Buyers were active in the market, but most of the sellers continued to be off. Resumption of summer showers in the rubber growing areas has disrupted tapping. This has also affected ... More

AEZ for rubber mooted

WATER

Watershed development: Kerala can do with minimum funds
WATERSHED development schemes in Kerala can get a qualitative boost provided the State Government acts proactively to confer the Department of Agriculture the status of a nodal agency that co-ordinates with other related agencies to share mutual ... More

INTERNET

Online diagnostic services planned for AP farmers
A FARMER in Mahboobnagar village will soon be able to make a phone call to a `call centre' in Hyderabad to know the amount of fertiliser he should use. Or, he can show a plant infected with a dread pest `live' to an agricultural scientist ... More

PRECIOUS METALS

Gold producer de-hedging gathers pace
PRODUCER de-hedging that started on a modest scale in 2002 has gathered momentum this year. A sharp scale-back of producer hedge books has continued into 2003, according to Gold Fields Mineral Services Ltd (GFMS). In its quarterly hedge book ... More

AGRICULTURAL INSTITUTIONS

Nabard consultancy arm may be hived off soon
NABARD's consultancy arm may be hived off into a separate entity in a year's time. Nabcons, as it is called, is working with over 20 clients in the country and abroad within just 10 months of operations. "With the consultancy service having ... More

COTTON

Inter-disciplinary meet for cotton likely by month-end
THE Central Institute for Cotton Research (CICR), Coimbatore Regional Station is planning to organise an inter-disciplinary meeting later this month. "This will be a platform for all the stakeholders — the grower, the mill sector, the ... More

OILSEEDS & EDIBLE OIL

Soya oil prices firm despite record crop
DESPITE pressure of heavy arrivals of soyabean from out of the record harvests in Brazil and Argentina contributing to record global production of 194 million tonne (mt) in 2002-03 (up from 184.3 mt last year), the soya complex is not showing ... More

COFFEE

Global coffee exports up; prices down
TRENDS in coffee exports (in all forms to all destinations) last six years make an interesting reading. Global coffee trade grew the fastest in 1999 and 2000, rising by about 10 million bags in two years to reach close to 90 million bags. ... More

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