The Hindu Business Line : Monday, April 11, 2005

Pvt bankers see rich harvest in agri credit
Analysts say that the UPA Government's thrust on increasing credit to agriculture has opened up new business avenues for banks. More

CONTRACT FARMING

SBI to provide loan for jatropha cultivation in TN
STATE Bank of India (SBI) has entered into an agreement with D1 Mohan Bio Oils Ltd to promote contract farming of jatropha for bio-diesel production. SBI's Chennai Local Head Office and D1 Mohan Bio Oils, a joint venture between Mohan Breweries ... More

AQUACULTURE

Forex earner
A scene from Kodungalloor beach. Seafood exports from the country have gone up by a little more than 7 per cent in dollar terms during the first nine months of the last financial year, according to figures released by the Marine Products Export ... More

SUGAR

Simbhaoli plans new model to double capacity
SIMBHAOLI Sugars Mills Ltd (SSML) has said it would double its existing sugar production capacity through a combination of brownfield expansion and establishing facilities for `off-season' processing of in-house and imported raw sugar. The ... More

TEA

Mixed trend at Kochi tea sale
A MIXED trend persisted for almost all varieties of tea at the Kochi tea auction. Though the dust sale witnessed a good general demand, it was comparatively low for leaf varieties. Of the 11,23,000 kg on offer in the dust category, good ... More

Teaserve auctions post lowest realisation
TEA producers who chose to sell through the Teaserve electronic auctions have got the lowest price of all the seven auction centres in the country. According to the Tea Board, the average price realised at the Teaserve auctions last year was Rs ... More

TECHNICAL ANALYSIS

Cotton to rise further
NEW YORK cotton futures ended firmer on Friday on speculative and trade buying as the focus turned to switch trade and market participants got out of spot May before it goes into delivery on April 25. Fundamentally, cotton has bucked large cotton ... More

COTTON

Cotton yield up 46% in last two seasons: CCI
COTTON farmers could post a 46 per cent jump in fibre yield in two crop seasons between 2002-04. They could break the yield barrier partly due to improved quality of seeds that they started using, according to Mr S.C. Grover, Chairman and ... More

POULTRY

`5% duty credit will boost TN poultry exports'
THE Namakkal-based poultry sector is on high spirits on the Union Commerce Minister's announcement of extending the `Vishesh Krishi Upaj Yojna' scheme to the poultry exporters under the annual supplement to the foreign trade policy 2004-09. The ... More

EVENTS

China keen to offer farm, dryland tech to Karnataka
BUT for a minor commotion caused by a Tibetan youth, who climbed atop the Indian Institute of Science (IISc) building and threw pamphlets, the two-day visit of the Chinese Prime Minister, Mr Wen Jiabao, went off smoothly. The Chinese Prime ... More

`Political consensus needed for FDI in retail trade'
While the Centre will ensure that commercial banks and regional rural banks work for farmers, the onus of low-cost funding through co-operative banks rests squarely with the State Governments. More

CO-OPERATIVES

Co-op debt trap looming large in Kerala: Expert
DELAY in restructuring and revitalising the long-term lending co-operatives is threatening to create a `cooperative debt trap' in the State with little elbowroom for the players - institutions, re-financiers and farmers - to manoeuvre. ... More

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