The Hindu Business Line : Tuesday, November 11, 2003

NCDEX online trading by month-end
The exchange is also intending to start futures trading in agricultural products, metals including precious metals, precious stones, diamonds, petroleum and energy products and all other commodities and securities, in spot markets and in futures. More

WHEAT

M.P. Govt to export 1 lakh t wheat
THE Madhya Pradesh Government plans to export at least one lakh tonnes of durum wheat during the current financial year, a State Agriculture Department official has said. ``We are in talks with MMTC to have the wheat exported to European Union ... More

AQUACULTURE

Castlerock in pact with Japan co for Surimi project
COCHIN-BASED Castlerock Fisheries Ltd (CFL) recently entered into a joint venture agreement with Nichirei Corporation of Japan for setting up Surimi project in India. Mr Toshio Aok, General Manager (Marine Product Division), Nichirei ... More

HORTICULTURE/FRUITS & VEGETABLES

`Opening up fruit exports has improved quality'
OPENING up of Indian markets for fruit exports has inadvertently helped to improve the quality of produce in this country, according to Mr John Hey, Editor, Asia Fruit. ``The grower is taking it as a challenge to improve quality ... More

RUBBER

Rubber weakens on nervous selling
THE rubber market weakened on Monday. RSS 4 declined to Rs 54 a kg from Rs 54.50 on Saturday. All the grades lost on nervous selling from growers and traders but latex remained unchanged on low supply. Expecting further fall in prices, buyers ... More

TEA

SBI Life cover for 4,400 tea workers
SBI Life Insurance Company Ltd has covered 4,400 employees of the Bombay Burmah Trading Corporation tea estate in Coimbatore through `Sudarshan', its endowment policy that has been modified to meet the workers' needs. For the first time, SBI ... More

OILSEEDS & EDIBLE OIL

Edible oil imports seen declining
EDIBLE oil imports into the country are projected to decline by eight lakh tonnes (lt) to 10 lt during the oil year 2003-04 (November-October) in view of better oilseed production and rising international prices, industry experts say. ``Edible ... More

COFFEE

Coffee prices soften under surplus pressure
THE rally in coffee prices at the beginning of the current coffee season seemed to have belied the hopes of growers' as it was short-lived. With prices continuing to rule at close to 30-year lows, the watchword for coffee growers for the next ... More

Planters' body renews demand for waiver of interest on coffee loan
THE Karnataka Planters' Association (KPA) has renewed its demand for the waiver of entire interest on the special coffee term loan (SCTL) for the first year of the three-year moratorium period. Speaking at a press conference ahead of the KPA's ... More

EVENTS

Radiation technology seminar
HYDERABAD: Acharya N.G. Ranga Agricultural University in collaboration with the Board of Research in Nuclear Sciences of the Department of Atomic Energy will be holding a three-day national seminar here on `Radiation technology for ... More

STANDARDS & BENCHMARKS

Trans fatty acids amount on labels made mandatory
THE US Food and Drugs Administration (FDA) has made labelling of amount of trans fatty acids present in conventional foods, including dietary supplements, mandatory. FDA, which had amended its regulation on nutrition labelling for this purpose, ... More

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