The Hindu Business Line : Wednesday, December 21, 2005

Intervet, BAIF Development sign MoU
AKZO Nobel's animal healthcare business, Intervet, has signed a memorandum of understanding to exclusively supply veterinary products and to set-up livestock disease diagnostic and healthcare centre for a special project in India to support rural ... More

RUBBER

Rubber prices top Rs 70/kg again
NATURAL rubber prices touched record levels for the third time this year as the RSS-4 grade reached Rs 70 a kg, making it one of the most remunerative periods for the country's million-plus growers. On a year-on-year basis, the ribbed smoked ... More

Covering groups remain dominant
Physical rubber prices firmed up further on Tuesday. Covering groups continued to remain dominant, while all grades except latex improved in the absence of quantity sellers. The market players seemed to be expecting enhanced quotations from the ... More

SUGAR

Sugar mills start ethanol delivery
THE programme to supply ethanol-doped petrol, gasohol, is finally picking up with sugar mills starting delivery to Indian Oil Corporation. According to sugar industry sources, ethanol deliveries have commenced, but of the three oil marketing ... More

INDUSTRY ASSOCIATIONS

Appointed to spices exporters' body

SILK

Set to face cold weather
A farmer re-arranging cocoons tray at Kywara in Karnataka's Kolar district in view of winter setting in. The cocoons fetch Rs 160-200 a kg at the farmgate, depending on the size and quality. ... More

JUTE

Row over price ceiling for raw jute — Commodity bourses suspend futures; Consumer Affairs Ministry cries foul
THE Union Ministry of Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution and the Textiles Ministry are engaged in a tussle over the recent announcement of a price ceiling on raw jute. According to Mr Kailash Gupta, Managing Director of National ... More

OILSEEDS & EDIBLE OIL

High mandi tax: Karnataka solvent extractors facing oilseeds shortage
SOLVENT extracting units in Karnataka are faced with shortage of oilseeds resulting in reduced capacity utilisation and loss in revenues. A high Mandi (marketing yard) tax of 1.5 per cent on oilseeds has forced the farmers to sell their produce ... More

Vanaspati makers: Align palm oil tariff rate with market price
VANASPATI producers have petitioned the Union Ministers for Finance and Food seeking their intervention to save the industry from certain ruin because of illogical customs duty structure and unfair competition from imports. In its latest ... More

POULTRY

Diamond Hatcheries to set up feed plant near Medchal
DIAMOND Hatcheries, one of the leading players in the poultry sector from Andhra Pradesh, is investing Rs 6 crore in setting up a separate palletised feed plant for its poultry birds near Medchal on the outskirts of Hyderabad. It has floated a ... More

SPICES & CONDIMENTS

Pepper imports rise despite curbs
PEPPER imports into the country have continued to increase during the past three years and despite the restrictive measures imposed this year, it stood at 15,926 tonnes during January-October 2005 as against 14,096 tonnes in the corresponding ... More

MARKETING

AWB plans investment in agri-produce marketing
ONE of the world's largest wheat marketing and management companies and Australia's largest agribusiness firm, AWB Ltd (formerly Australian Wheat Board, now corporatised), is here in India with concrete plans to invest in agri-produce marketing ... More

CO-OPERATIVES

Sahakara Bharati members set to take charge of Campco board
MEMBERS of Sahakara Bharati are all set to take charge as directors on the board of the Central Arecanut and Cocoa Marketing and Processing Cooperative (Campco) Ltd for the next five years. Sahakara Bharati is a non-political cooperative forum. ... More

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