AGRI-BIZ & COMMODITIES
CLIMATE & WEATHER
`Near neutral El Nino favours good monsoon'
THE Director-General of the India Meteorological Department (IMD), Dr S.K Srivastav, said the main basis for expecting a good monsoon this year was the absence of any adverse `El Nino' effect. The latter refers to a warming up of the eastern ...
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INSIGHT
Elections and agriculture: Poor crop of plans and policies
Instead of focussing on matters of vital concern to the country's food security, such as eradicating persistent hunger, enhancing foodgrain production and sounding the alarm on GM foods, the battle for the ballot has degenerated into non-issues. It i s time those in the electoral fray thought seriously about how to put the farm sector back in a position of strength.
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HORTICULTURE/FRUITS & VEGETABLES
Demand for jackfruit on the rise
The demand for jackfruit is on the rise outside the State. Angamali on the outskirts of Kochi is hub of jackfruit trade and truckloads of fruit are being sent to States such as Bihar, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, Delhi and Uttar Pradesh on daily ...
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Steep fall in prices
Farm workers picking tomatoes from a field in Kolar in Karnataka. Tomato prices have slid to as cheap as Rs 15 for a 15-kg box. Besides, farmers have to pay Rs 2-3 a box to transport tomatoes to the market. ...
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RUBBER
Rubber flares up on hectic buying
All the grades recorded smart gains on hectic buying from covering groups and purchase agents. Arrivals continued to be thin and the entire quantities reached the main marketing centres were absorbed offering higher rates. According to traders, a ...
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TECHNICAL ANALYSIS
Spot gold may head lower
GOLD prices crashed to one-month low on heavy selling, as fears of a rise in inflation would see the US interest move higher and therefore, lifting the dollar in the process. The dollar rose against the euro and other major currencies after a ...
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GOLD & SILVER
Uncertainties can push gold to $450/oz
AS economic and political uncertainties keep stoking investor interest, gold prices in future have a strong bias to the upside, with $450 an ounce a good possibility should the conditions remain right for attracting further investor interest, ...
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COFFEE
Coffee producers told to recognise structural changes
THE crisis facing the global coffee sector, particularly producing countries, in the form of price collapse resulting from persistent demand-supply mismatch of the last four to five years is unlikely to be resolved anytime soon. This is until ...
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SPICES & CONDIMENTS
Pepper drops sharply on weak demand
PEPPER prices are on the downward swing in the terminal market here on weak demand. Spot prices have dropped by Rs 500 a quintal during the last fortnight. The prices of MG 1 and ungarbled on Thursday were Rs 7,700 and Rs 7,400 a quintal as ...
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