The Hindu Business Line : Sunday, January 11, 2004

TECHNICAL ANALYSIS
Data to decide palm oil course
MALAYSIAN crude palm oil futures on MDEX ended higher on Friday on the back of a strong pullback in overnight Chicago soya oil prices. A flurry of data is expected next week, which will provide some direction for prices from here. Cargo ... More

DAIRY & DAIRY PRODUCTS
Cost accountants irked by exemption to milk food cos
EVEN as companies in the business of manufacturing chocolates, ice-creams and `desi ghee' would be a happy lot, the recent move of the Department of Company Affairs to exempt the producers from following cost accounting rules has not been ... More

AGRICULTURAL POLICY
Come Jan 20: Farmers get call centre
PM to launch Jaikisan TV channel, FM radio service
HERE is yet another of those seemingly never-ending pre-election offerings from the ruling BJP-led alliance, directed at the country's 12 crore-odd farming households. On January 20, the Prime Minister, Mr Atal Bihari Vajpayee, will formally ... More

INTERVIEW
`For tea industry survival, costs must come down'
THE tea industry is passing through serious crisis for the past few years due to rock-bottom prices as a result of over supply. In South India, the cost of production is higher than the sales price, thus pushing the plantation sector into the ... More

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