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ANIMALS & LIVESTOCK
MPI to invest Rs 10 cr to double capacity
MEAT Products India Ltd (MPI) at Edayar near Koothattukulam is to double its capacity next year apart from taking steps to procure enough unproductive livestock to meet its meat requirement. With an investment of Rs 10 crore, adequate ... More

PESTS
METSIGNS
Pest, disease alert on paddy crop
PADDY fields in the State should be closely watched for pest attack and incidence of various diseases even as a second top dressing for the Mundakan crop gets under way, says the Agromet Bulletin dated November ... More

CONTRACT FARMING
TN agriculture dept into cotton contract farming
CLOSE on the heels of a few corporate experiments on cotton contract farming done in the last two years in the State, it now appears to be the turn of the Tamil Nadu Agriculture Department to venture into organising cotton developmentunder what ... More

INSIGHT
The continuing possibilities of land reform
Land reforms are typically thought of only in terms of land redistribution, which is seen as politically too difficult to attempt. But there are a range of other measures which are very important in ensuring not only better equit y in agriculture but also greater viability of farming and improved agricultural productivity. In this edition of Macroscan, C. P. Chandrasekhar and Jayati Ghosh discuss some of these issues and pos sibilities, taking rural Andhra Pradesh as the specific example. More

PLANTATIONS
Wage settlement for plantations workers soon
THE new wage settlement for the staff working in the plantations in Kerala, Tamil Nadu and Karnataka is expected to come through within the next three months. According to a release issued by the Estates Staffs' Union of South India (ESUSI), at ... More

SUGAR
To fund capacity expansion — Bajaj Hind mulls Rs 100-cr equity infusion
BAJAJ Hindustan Ltd (BHL), the country's biggest sugar manufacturer, may go in for fresh equity infusion of Rs 100 crore to part finance its ongoing capacity expansion drive. The company has mandated I-Sec to study the matter. "If required, we ... More

AGRICULTURAL INSTITUTIONS
Icrisat training centre
HYDERABAD: The International Crops Research Institute for Semi-Arid Tropics (Icrisat) has commissioned a demonstration-cum-training unit for distilling ingredients from medicinal and aromatic plants (MAPs) at its campus at Patancheru, near ... More

COTTON
Cotton output estimate unchanged at 213 l bales
THE Cotton Advisory Board (CAB) on Monday left unchanged its output estimate at 213 lakh bales for the 2004-05 season that began in October. The CAB, in its meeting on September 21, made an initial estimate of 213 lakh bales (of 170 kg) for ... More

JUTE
Draft jute policy moots restructuring of JCI
JUTE Corporation of India (JCI) may witness drastic changes in its functional operations and management restructuring if the suggestions made in the draft Jute Comprehensive Policy are implemented. The draft has criticised the present ... More

COCONUT & COPRA
Anti-mite programme in AP
HYDERABAD: The Government has launched a programme for the control of Eriophyid mite attack on coconut plantations spread over 75,000 hectares in 10 districts of the State. The programme envisages formation of official committees from ... More

COFFEE
Coffee powder prices hiked
COFFEE powder prices have been hiked again. The earlier revision was done in September. The rate of pure coffee powder has gone up to Rs 150 a kg from Rs 145. This is the third upward revision in the price of coffee powder in the last ... More

EVENTS
Hyderabad to host global food and beverage exhibition
A high profile exhibition to showcase the best in the processed foods industry will be held in Hyderabad during December 10-13. World of Food India 2004 organised by Koelnmesse GmbH and its Indian subsidiary Cidex Trade Fairs, will include ... More

NATURAL CALAMITIES
`Let probe panel fix responsibility'
THE Chief Minister, Dr Y.S. Rajasekhara Reddy, today said that the judicial commission appointed by the State Government would examine the causes and also those responsible for the spate of suicides by farmers in the State. Dr Reddy enumerated ... More

STANDARDS & BENCHMARKS
Aflatoxin may hit groundnut exports
AFTER a great season in 2003-04, aflatoxin problem seems to have come back to haunt groundnut kernel exports from the country this season. Kernels from Saurashtra region of Gujarat, out of the just-concluded kharif season harvest, are showing ... More

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