The Hindu Business Line : Friday, May 21, 2004

ANIMALS & LIVESTOCK
Pre-monsoon showers offer hope to cattle camp refugees
Cattle camps have been a major component of drought management this year and stronger the trusts which got into the act, the better their running. For instance, the weaker ones found that the desire to help did not match the capacity to run them beca use funds were a critical input. More

RUBBER
Rubber futures bullish
KOTTAYAM: The spot rubber market remained closed on Thursday following the death of the former Kerala Chief Minister, Mr E.K. Nayanar. Rubber futures continued to show a better trend on Thursday. The near-month June delivery was quoted ... More

TECHNICAL ANALYSIS
Spot gold may correct upwards
GOLD prices rose higher on the back of a dollar sell-off. Safe-haven buying from global political tensions has been supporting gold, as has physical demand from the West Asia and Asia. But this has been neutralised by prospects for higher US ... More

COTTON
Spurt in area under Surabi cotton
HAVE cotton farmers started to raise the variety/hybrid in conformity with the mill (consuming industry) requirement? Have they entered into a buyback arrangement with the consuming sector? Though the signals are obvious nothing concrete has ... More

POULTRY
Maize for Hyderabad poultry farmers
HYDERABAD: The National Egg Coordination Committee (NECC), which procured maize from Food Corporation of India (FCI), has supplied the first consignment of 100-truck loads of the poultry feed to farmers around Hyderabad at Rs 550 per ... More

SPICES & CONDIMENTS
Cardamom market steady
THE cardamom market ruled steady on buying support from domestic traders and prices remained at previous week's levels at auctions held in Kerala and Tamil Nadu. As the prices were somewhat moderate, the growers were liquidating old stocks, ... More

AGRICULTURAL POLICY
Govt scraps sugar buffer stock
THE Centre has terminated the maintenance of buffer stock for the sugar industry, leaving the industry poorer by about Rs 300 crore a year, according to industry sources. A notification issued by the Ministry of Consumer Affairs, Food and ... More

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