Financial Daily from THE HINDU group of publications
Friday, August 15, 2003
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AGRI-BIZ & COMMODITIES AQUACULTURE HORTICULTURE/FRUITS & VEGETABLES 
Tomatoes galoreA vegetable vendor selling tomatoes at his retail shop in Chennai. With the increase in tomato arrivals, especially from interior Tamil Nadu and Karnataka, over the last few days, the wholesale price of the vegetable has slipped to Rs 2-3 a kg. ... More RUBBER Rubber prices flare up on low arrivals rubberRUBBER prices flared up on Thursday, while the arrivals narrowed down to a rock bottom. Heavy rains all over the plantations since the last three days disrupted tapping too. All the grades favoured the producing sector except latex, ... More TEA Coonoor tea auctioneers issued tax notice THE commercial taxes department has issued notice to all the tea brokers (auctioneers) who had sold their teas through the Coonoor auctions in the assessment years of 1999-00 and 2000-01 claiming tax under the Tamil Nadu General Sales Tax Act ... More PRECIOUS METALS India aids Q2 gold demand growth CONSUMER demand for gold went up in the second quarter of the current year compared not only to the previous quarter (Q1-03) but also to the same quarter last year (Q202) as jewellery fabrication managed a gain, thanks largely to India. The ... More AGRICULTURAL INSTITUTIONS Avesthagen ties up with Icrisat AVESTHAGEN, a Bangalore-based company, has entered into a strategic alliance with the International Crop Research Institute for Semi Arid Tropics (Icrisat) to provide advanced food and water testing services based on new generation technologies. ... More OILSEEDS & EDIBLE OIL Record crop to keep vegoil on slippery ground A RECORD 24 million tonnes (mt) increase in world oilseeds output together with a sharp rise in palm oil production in 2003-04 is expected to keep global vegetable oil prices on a tight leash while ending-stock levels are likely to improve. ... More SPICES & CONDIMENTS Pepper prices hit by Lankan imports FLOODING of the domestic market with pepper imported mainly from Sri Lanka is hitting hard domestic trade and the growers, in the absence of a positive decision by the Centre on the proposals made by the Spices Board, to put a cap on duty-free ... More WTO Govt rejects EU-US farm trade plan THE Union Law and Commerce Minister, Mr Arun Jaitley, today said the EU-US proposal for farm trade reform under WTO "is not acceptable to India". India's Ambassador to WTO, Mr K.M. Chandrashekhar, would come out with clarifications on the ... More MARKETING 
Nafed forays into consumer productsTHE National Agricultural Co-operative Marketing Federation (Nafed) of India Ltd has forayed into marketing of consumer products to complement its activities in the commodities market. "Till recently, Nafed's activities were confined to only ... More Comments & Letters to the Editor to: bleditor@thehindu.co.in Subscribe to: Business Line |
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Top Stories In Focus The Cable tangle Pakistan Diary Indo-Pak Monitor Indo-China Relations Telecom Competition In Depth In Kashmir Simple Economics Slowburn Tax Talk NRIs & Investment Avenues Corporate Governance Looking back Aug. 3-Aug. 9 Silver prices may stay range-bound Edible oil imports up on festival demand Revised crude olein norms may make import difficult Farm goods prices begin to dip on output hopes Revised specifications for crude olein — Importers worried over consignment in transit Q1 spices export down by Rs 40 cr Tea exports to all major nations dip |
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