AGRI-BIZ & COMMODITIES
COMMODITY EXCHANGES
Bikaner bourse to trade mustard
THE Bikaner Commodity Exchange (BCE) will begin futures trading in mustard seed on February 3, 2004, according to an exchange source. "Trading in April contracts will start from February 3, 2004. At present, the exchange is running February ...
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WHEAT
Global wheat output could touch new high
WORLD wheat output in 2004 has the potential for a significant rebound in 2004 and could be over 600 million tonnes (mt), going by sown areas and weather conditions in major producing countries, said the London-based International Grains Council ...
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PESTICIDES
MET SIGNS
Alert on pests
THE Met Office has signalled the possibility of the current bout of rice bug attack persisting, severe cases of which may be treated with spraying of Mercaptothion at 2ml/litre of water. The Agromet advisory dated January 29 issued by the ...
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PLANTATIONS
Campco urges Centre to curb arecanut imports
CENTRAL Arecanut and Cocoa Marketing and Processing Co-operative (Campco) Ltd has urged the Union Government to restrict the import of arecanut from countries such as Indonesia, Thailand and Myanmar, which, according to Campco, are of "inferior" ...
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RUBBER
Rubber recovers
RUBBER prices recovered as growers and traders were reluctant to sell at lower levels. RSS 4 closed at Rs 50.50 a kg against Rs 50 on Thursday. All the grades regained the previous day's losses though there wasn't any visible buying interest from ...
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TECHNICAL ANALYSIS
Gold prices may head lower
GOLD prices are on the rise again after retreating for a while on the back of a strong dollar rally against the major currencies the previous week. Absence of any gold related news has increased the reliance on the currencies for direction. ...
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GOLD & SILVER
India, Japan may push gold higher
A BULLISH sentiment has been added to the already firm gold market with announcements coming from two major nations — India and Japan in quick succession. Notwithstanding the fact that the Euro-dollar direction will remain the focus of ...
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POULTRY
Tagma Agro unveils `low cholesterol' eggs
EVEN as the bird flu scare continues, the Delhi-based Tagma Agrotech Ltd has launched a `low cholesterol egg' under the brand name Organegg, for which it has already filed a patent. Mr Sanjiv Wadhera, Director, Tagma Agrotech, claimed that the ...
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Bird flu: TN poultry sector on watch mode
THE outbreak of bird flu in the country's neighbourhood poultry farms including Pakistan and Thailand has made the Tamil Nadu's poultry-rich Namakkal and Palladam zones sit up and study the precautionary measures needed to counter the ...
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EVENTS
Call to bring agriculture to centre-stage
HAS agriculture been given the due it deserves a query that may seem totally out of place at this point in time but pertinent enough to figure at a recently concluded seminar on agriculture. "Global trends and urbanisation make agriculture look ...
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