The Hindu Business Line : Tuesday, July 29, 2003

TN CM calls for new package for cane farmers
THE Tamil Nadu Chief Minister, Ms Jayalalithaa, has written to the Centre to come out with an expanded package to enable sugar mills to clear arrears of sugarcane payments to all farmers. In a letter to the Union Agriculture Minister, Mr ... More

TEA

Exporters cheer up Coonoor tea sale
AFTER being dormant for some time, buyers for the Russian market suddenly showed some keen interest to pick up volumes at the tea auctions here during the weekend. They operated more for the leaf grades, but the dust grades survived principally ... More

COTTON

Cotton output projected lower at 136 l bales
THE East India Cotton Association (EICA) on Monday estimated raw cotton crop at 136 lakh bales (of 170 kg) for the current season 2002-2003, down by nearly 14 per cent over the previous season's figure of 158 lakh bales. The crop estimates, ... More

Call to modernise ginning units
THE ginning industry is bound to respond positively to modernisation and adoption of best management practices for contamination-free cotton, the Central Textile Commissioner, Mr Subodh Kumar, has said. Inaugurating a workshop here on ... More

AGRICULTURAL POLICY

Govt increases MSP of oilseeds, pulses, cotton
FIRST it was the raingods. Now, it is the Government's turn to shower its bounty on the farming community, till recently reeling under the double onslaught of dry weather and declining crop price realisations. Less than a fortnight after ... More

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