AGRI-BIZ & COMMODITIES
CULTIVATION
Lean season
Women workers engaged in threshing and winnowing of paddy at Kollankode in Palakkad district. Drought has brought down production of rice in the district, which contributes 34 per cent of the State's total rice production. For want of water, ...
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RUBBER
Rubber market in corrective phase
AFTER touching an eight-year's peak at Rs 57 per kg on Wednesday since 1996, the corrective phase that started on Thursday continued to prevail in the market on Friday. Growers and traders sold rubber anticipating further weakness. ...
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SUGAR
Simbhaoli Sugar forays into branded segment
SIMBHAOLI Sugar Mills, a large sugar unit located near Hapur in Uttar Pradesh, on Thursday announced the company's foray into branded speciality segment with the launch of refined sugar. The company has converted the entire manufacturing ...
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BIO-TECH & GENETICS
Project to isolate drought tolerant genes in plants
IN a biotech initiative that could impact dryland farming in the country, the Central Research Institute for Dryland Agriculture (CRIDA), here is working on a project to isolate genes responsible for drought tolerance from local land races and ...
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AGRICULTURAL INSTITUTIONS
Nabard pegs Kerala's credit potential at Rs 13,981 cr
THE National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development (Nabard) has prepared district-wise potential linked credit plans (PLPs) amounting to a total of Rs 13,981 crore for Kerala in 2004-05. The bank has also projected a likely credit flow of ...
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OILSEEDS & EDIBLE OIL
Asian demand revives soyameal exports
SOYAMEAL exports have got a shot in the arm with demand reviving this week from the Far East and other Asian countries. "Contracts have been signed this week for exports to Japan and South Korea," said Mr Rajesh Agrawal, Chairman, Soyabean ...
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Higher prices to expand US soya crop
EVEN though the overall crop is expected to set new record, serious concerns about the size of the upcoming South American soyabean harvests due to unfavourable weather have developed. From an initial expectation of 61.5 million tonnes (mt), the ...
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AGRICULTURAL POLICY
AP Govt announces sops for cane growers
THE Andhra Pradesh Government has announced a relief package to sugarcane growers for the year 2003-04. Accordingly, it has been decided to increase the existing purchase tax incentive of Rs 20 per tonne to Rs 60 per tonne for sugar ...
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EVENTS
Govt to tap potential of bamboo
THE Prime Minister, Mr Atal Bihari Vajpayee, on Friday said that the Government wants to change the image of bamboo from being an orphan crop into "green gold" in view of its massive employment generation potential for the rural and urban ...
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