AGRI-BIZ & COMMODITIES
HORTICULTURE/FRUITS & VEGETABLES
TN onion growers' woes
MADURAI: Onion growers, especially of `Chinna Vengayam' variety in Perambalur district suffer much due to absence of storage facilities and marketing avenues, and they are forced to sell their products to middlemen at Tiruchi at a lesser ...
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PESTICIDES
Icrisat plans research body for bio-pesticide
TWELVE private sector companies have agreed to become partners in the International Crops Research Institute for Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT) - Private Sector Bio-pesticide Research Consortium, scheduled to start next month. Stating this at a ...
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RUBBER
Rubber firms up on supply constraints
NATURAL rubber prices are inching upwards since the beginning of this month as lower than expected yield in Kerala's plantations has led to constrained supplies in the market. "There is no free flow. What we should witness in December is not ...
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Rubber records gains on active buying
Major buyers were active in the market along with the covering groups who procured the arrivals to fulfil their commitments. Buyers were visibly nervous about a possible scarcity of the raw material. An almost steady closing at TOCOM supported ...
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FOODS & FOOD PROCESSING
90 nations to take part in Anuga food fair
ANUGA — one of the world's largest trade fairs for the international food industry and trade — will be held during October 8-12, 2005 at Cologne in Germany. Nearly 6,000 suppliers from over 90 countries will showcase their latest ...
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AGRICULTURAL INSTITUTIONS
Nabard credit to top Rs 20,000 cr in Kerala
THE State Focus Paper from the National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development (Nabard) has projected a quantum jump in ground level credit flow under the priority sector in Kerala during the next financial year. According to Mr B.S. ...
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OILSEEDS & EDIBLE OIL
COMMODITY COMMENTARY
Make packaging mandatory for refined oils
IS the Union Government compromising its responsibility to protect consumer interest by delegating the powers of implementing the country's food laws to State Governments? The view that the Centre is neither willing to assume any responsibility ...
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SPICES & CONDIMENTS
Cardamom rules steady
THE cardamom market was steady during the week on buying support with marginal variations in the prices at the auctions held in Kerala and Tamil Nadu. Both exporters and north Indian buyers were active. Export buying from October 16 to ...
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Pepper rises on Kerala procurement plan
PEPPER prices increased sharply following the announcement by the Kerala Government that it would start its procurement from Monday at Rs 75 a kg. Announcing it in Thiruvananthapuram on Friday, the Chief Minister, Mr Oommen Chandy, said Kerala ...
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NATURAL CALAMITIES
Central team to assess crop damage in TN
MADURAI: A team from the Centre, headed by Mr D.P. Misra, Joint Secretary in the Home Ministry, will be visiting Nagapattinam, Thanjavur and Tiruvarur on Saturday and Sunday to assess the damage to the crops due to floods. The Tamil ...
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ECONOMIC OFFENCES
Probe ordered into Israeli farm tech project in Kuppam
THE State Agriculture Minister, N. Raghuveera Reddy, has ordered a judicial inquiry into alleged misappropriation of funds in the Israel farm technology demo project initiated by the former Chief Minister, Mr N. Chandrababu Naidu, in his Kuppam ...
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