The Hindu Business Line : Saturday, January 14, 2006

Triveni Engg, SBI tie up to provide credit to farmers
TRIVENI Engineering has entered into an agreement with SBI for providing banking facilities to farmers. At its retail outlets, called Triveni Khushali Bazaar (TKB), the company sells agricultural implements, diesel, fertilisers, and consumer ... More

AQUACULTURE

Centre sets up Coastal Aquaculture Authority
THE Centre has constituted the Coastal Aquaculture Authority to regulate all forms of aquaculture activities, including shrimp farms. According to officials, the authority has been constituted under the Coastal Aquaculture Authority Act 2005, ... More

HORTICULTURE/FRUITS & VEGETABLES

Up & Rising
A vendor selling betel leaves in Chittoor near Palakkad in Kerala. Prices of betel leaves have soared, with a bunch of 50 leaves costing up to Rs 16 against Rs 7 during the same time last year. Most of the supply to Kerala is met from Karur in ... More

RUBBER

Rubber market remains buoyant
THE physical rubber market continued to surge ahead on Friday. Growers and dealers seemed to be more optimistic to hold the stocks as the peak production season would end in January. The international markets were also in a positive mood. ... More

SUGAR

Sugar coops to supply ethanol to oil PSUs
THE domestic sugar industry wishes to do a Brazil with ethanol-blended gasoline. Though Brazil's benchmark of over 40 per cent of its automobile fuel coming by way of ethanol is a distant task for the Indian sugar industry, fresh targets are ... More

DAIRY & DAIRY PRODUCTS

Amul may witness 50 pc increase in exports
GUJARAT Cooperative Milk Marketing Federation (GCMMF), better known as Amul, is expected to end the current year with 50 per cent rise in exports, to Rs 180 crore. Amul branded product exports increased 100 per cent to Rs 120 crore in ... More

AGRICULTURAL INSTITUTIONS

Nabard projects Rs 8,273-crore credit plan for Bengal in 2006-07
Seeking opening of more channels of credit, Mr Samar Ghosh, Principal Secretary, Finance, Government of West Bengal, called for crop diversification, into items other than rice such as wheat, oilseeds and pulses, in which Bengal is deficient. More

Nabard prepares Rs 25,653-cr credit plan for Kerala
THE National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development (Nabard) has prepared a Rs 25,653-crore potential linked credit plan for the priority sector in Kerala in 2006-07. The bank, in its State Focus Paper for the year, has projected credit ... More

Centre approves $50,000 for Global Crop Diversity Trust
THE Union Government has approved signing of an agreement for the establishment of Global Crop Diversity Trust by making one-time voluntary contribution of $50,000. The Union Cabinet, which met on Thursday under the chairmanship of the Prime ... More

OILSEEDS & EDIBLE OIL

Record output likely in global oilseeds
PRODUCTION of major oilseeds around the world is expected to hit a new high in 2005-06 with the output projected at 389 million tonnes (mt), up from 380 mt last year. With increased crush of oilseeds and rise in palm oil contribution, global ... More

POULTRY

To counter falling prices in TN — NECC steps in to buy surplus eggs through its marketing arm
EFFORTS are on to set up a market intervention mechanism to arrest the falling prices of egg price in Tamil Nadu. The National Egg Coordination Committee (NECC) in Namakkal has made arrangements for procurement of surplus eggs by the Agro ... More

EVENTS

Setting up of Biodiversity Board by Kerala lauded
THE National Biodiversity Authority (NBA) has complimented the State Government for setting up a State Biodiversity Board with eminent personalities as members. Prof S. Kannayan, Chairman, NBA, lauded the decision while inaugurating a ... More

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