AGRI-BIZ & COMMODITIES
COMMODITY EXCHANGES
Steel City Commodities opens MCX trading floor
FUTURES trading in commodities is set to take off in India and already impressive strides have been made during the past few months, Mr Jignesh Shah, Managing Director of Multi-Commodity Exchange of India Ltd, Mumbai, has said. Mr Shah was ...
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FARM CREDIT
SBT tractor loan scheme
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The State Bank of Travancore has launched a special loan scheme for the purchase of tractors. Called the `tractor special loan scheme', the initiative is targeted at farmers, non-governmental organisations, ...
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CLIMATE & WEATHER
Isolated rains forecast in Kerala
KERALA received isolated rains and thundershowers over the past four days, says the Agromet Advisory Bulletin issued by the Meteorological Centre Thiruvananthapuram on April 12. The forecast valid till April 14 says ...
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INSIGHT
Bamboo — the ordinary plant with extraordinary uses
BAMBOO is almost ubiquitous in nature. One of the oldest plants on Earth, bamboo is cultivated, or grows, throughout the world and has uses from cradle to coffin. For various reasons, this grass has fascinated people, ...
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HORTICULTURE/FRUITS & VEGETABLES
Vegetable exporters in Kerala to boycott foreign airlines
HIT by the high freight rates charged by foreign airlines on the Kerala-West Asia sector, vegetable and fruit exporters in the State have decided to launch a boycott of all foreign airlines that do not reduce air cargo rates from Kerala to West ...
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RUBBER
Rubber rates recover on demand
Even though moderate rainfalls were reported from plantation areas there was no considerable improvement in production due to high temperature ruling during daytime. According to sources, market might become more active only after ...
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SUGAR
Sugar mills woo farmers to grow more cane — Offer free urea, subsidy on insecticides
THE last 2-3 crushing seasons (October-September) have been dreadful for the sugarcane farming community, with factories owing them huge sums even against past supplies. But this situation, it seems, is now passé. Suddenly, the growers, who ...
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Sugar prices up as demand rises
DOMESTIC sugar prices have gone up by Rs 65/70 per quintal or nearly 5 per cent during the current month, mainly on fresh seasonal demand from retailers and bulk consumers coupled with average lower inflows from mills. This is despite an ...
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TEA
`Bengal not complying with SC order on plantation workers'
MEMBERS of an international union delegation alleged that the West Bengal Government is not implementing the orders of the Supreme Court regarding the welfare of the starving plantation workers of the North Bengal tea industry. The delegation ...
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DAIRY & DAIRY PRODUCTS
Paras group launches `bactofuged' milk
Unlike pasteurisation and UHT treatment, bactofugation is a non-thermal process for removing bacteria, particularly the heat-resistant spores, using a high-speed centrifugal separator or `bactofuge'.
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OILSEEDS & EDIBLE OIL
Flower power
A young farmer busy nurturing the sunflower crop near Chevella at RangaReddy district of Andhra Pradesh. Sunflower is widely grown in Andhra Pradesh. According to the Directorate of Economics and Statistics, the State shares 28.75 per cent of ...
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POULTRY
Chicken, egg prices increase on production fall, dipping stocks
THE market for live chicken and layer eggs has begun to stage a smart recovery amidst a fall in production and lower stock levels in Tamil Nadu. The tight supply and the festival/holiday demand have encouraged the poultry farms to raise the ...
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WTO
No concrete proposals yet in WTO farm talks
THE World Trade Organisation (WTO) is yet to see any concrete proposal from major nations that hold the key to achieving a breakthrough in the talks on Agreement on Agriculture. "While the tone of the meetings in Geneva during talks last month ...
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EVENTS
Training for farmers in Kollam dist.
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The Union Government's Department of Food and Public Distribution, under the aegis of the `save grain campaign', will provide 10 days of stipendiary training to 50 farmers of Chavara in Kollam district, according to an ...
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CO-OPERATIVES
Rubber cooperatives facing financial crunch
"No rubber co-operative have earned profits for three continuous years and NCDC may not be able to fund any of them."
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