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Wednesday, June 11, 2003
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Pepper garbled ready7900 (7900)

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`Pacific white shrimp imports illegal'
THE illegal import and cultivation of the exotic white shrimp, which is a native of the Pacific waters of Latin America, is posing a grave threat to Indian aquaculture. Reacting to reports that the Pacific white shrimp (P Vannamei) was being ... More

INSIGHT


Courage, Mr Rajnath Singh!
The new Agriculture Minister has his task cut out for him. Besides tackling the festering problem of cane and cotton growers, the other imponderables are the fate of the monsoon, the WTO pressures, the GM food issue, and the looming elections. He ha s a heavy and complex agenda, says Sharad Joshi. More

PESTICIDES


Better watch out for birds over fields
THE absence of house sparrows in different parts of Andhra Pradesh and Kerala and their decreasing population elsewhere, the disappearance of vultures and the reduction in the population of house crows and baya birds may be due to the residual ... More

RUBBER


Rubber weakens
THE rubber market weakened due to mild selling pressure from growers and the prices of RSS 4 and RSS 5 moved down since there was no enquiry from the tyre sector. The international market also weakened to Rs 48.38 per kg for RSS 3. The July ... More

WATER


Farmers up in arms against move to divert Netravati
`The entire project, apart from being destructive and against the interests of both the rural and urban population of the area, is also impractical and unscientific.' More

BIO-TECH & GENETICS


Sowing research
What's on at the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur? Research projects to develop application-oriented end products in the Genetically Modified domain. More

OILSEEDS & EDIBLE OIL


STC too to canalise vanaspati imports
THE Government has appointed State Trading Corporation (STC) as a canalising agency in addition to the Central Warehousing Corporation (CWC) for import of vanaspati from Nepal under the annual tariff quota regime. Under the revised Indo-Nepal ... More

SPICES & CONDIMENTS


Pepper down on weak demand
About 10-15 containers from Vietnam and 20 of them from Sri Lanka are reported to be on their way to India. More
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