The Hindu Business Line : Friday, July 29, 2005

Railways plans more joint ventures for commercial plantation
THE Railways plans to intensify its efforts to encourage private participation in commercial plantations on its vacant land. It proposes to enter into joint ventures with private parties to promote plantation of various commercial trees in ... More

COMMODITIES

European central banks' gold sales target within reach
The selling interest implies that physical market factors will not support gold prices. More

HORTICULTURE/FRUITS & VEGETABLES

An exotic vegetable
An ancient delicacy, the truffle is one of the most elusive and expensive tubers in the world. More

TNAU set to begin GM brinjal field trials
THE Tamil Nadu Agricultural University (TNAU) will soon take for field trials a genetically modified eggplant that is resistant to fruit and shoot borer. Fruit and shoot borer have been affecting eggplant yield in a big way and the GM brinjal ... More

RUBBER

Rubber falls further on panic selling
SPOT rubber prices continued to suffer on panic selling from traders and dealers. Further fall in Bangkok RSS 3 spot, which closed at Rs 76.44 against Rs 78.96 a kg on Wednesday, hammered the domestic rates as most of the operators sold their ... More

SUGAR

Balrampur Chini, IFC sign carbon credit agreement
THE first Carbon Emission Purchase Agreement in India worth over $10 million has been signed by the International Finance Corporation (IFC) with a sugar manufacturer. The IFC-Netherlands Carbon Facility (INCaF), a joint initiative of the IFC ... More

SPICES & CONDIMENTS

Cardamom prices fall Rs 40/kg on selling pressure
CARDAMOM prices fell sharply by Rs 40 a kg at auctions held during the week in Kerala and Tamil Nadu on heavy selling pressure. There have been heavy arrivals during the week. The early crop this year also turned out to be good. Besides, for ... More

WTO

WTO Cell for AP ryots
THE Andhra Pradesh Government will soon open a WTO (World Trade Organisation) Cell for farmers to help explain the implications of the new global trade regime for the agricultural economy. The cell would be housed at the office of the ... More

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