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COFFEE


Coffee exports down despite realisations rising
Shipments in line with estimates, says Coffee Board More

CULTIVATION


Cashing in early
BUSY AS A BEE: Women engaged in transplanting paddy at a village in Tamil Nadu's Kanchipuram district. With most of the reservoirs having ample water following heavy rains during the north-east monsoon, farmers have begun early sowing of the food ... More

SEEDS


Rising prices
DIPPING STOCKS: A worker drying coriander seeds at a warehouse near Kochi. Coriander seed production this season to June is expected to be down 20 per cent over last year's output of around 2.5 lakh tonnes. About 40,000 tonnes of coriander are ... More

INSIGHT


Agriculture's role in contemporary development
While GDP growth in India is touching new highs, the divergence in sectoral growth rates only increases. Industry and, particularly, services record creditable or remarkable rates of growth, but the agricultural sector performs poorly. In this editio n of Macroscan, C. P. Chandrasekhar and Jayati Ghosh discuss some implications of this disproportionality. More

FLORICULTURE


IN FULL BLOOM
A Kashmiri gardener works on a Tulip flowerbed in Srinagar. Kashmir is the only place in the country where Tulips bloom from March till May in natural climatic ... More

PLANTATIONS


Campco plans setting up import-export cell
To help identify markets for products More

Old stocks of white arecanut top Rs 100
The price of old stocks of white arecanut touched Rs 100 a kg at the trading platform at South Kanara Agriculturists Co-operative Marketing Society (SKACMS) Ltd on Monday. Traders quoted Rs 82-100 for different grades of the old stocks. The ... More

RUBBER


Spot rubber firms up further
The week opened with a positive note in spot rubber prices. The market firmed up further and all major grades gained on sustained demand. Supplies were dull. Covering groups and purchase agents seemed optimistic about revised quotes from the ... More

TEA


Coonoor tea prices rule steady
The postponement of the fiscal year-end auctions to April 1 has helped the prices to remain steady at sale No. 13 of the Coonoor Tea Trade Association as buyers form the upcountry markets operated more vigorously than in the last couple of weeks. ... More

METALS


Copper, zinc prices raised
All major producers of copper and zinc have raised their selling prices by Rs 8,000-11,000 a tonne depending on the grades for the current month, effective April 1, trade sources said. Major producers of copper products — Hindustan ... More

FOODGRAINS


AP: Foodgrains production target 205 lakh tonnes
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AGRICULTURAL INSTITUTIONS


Move to strengthen water resources
The Icrisat (International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics), the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) and the Coca-Cola Foundation have joined hands to take up strengthening of rural water resources in the ... More

STANDARDS & BENCHMARKS


FCI bags ISO 9001-2000
The Kerala region of Food Corporation of India (FCI) has been awarded the ISO 9001-2000 quality certification by the Bureau of Indian Standards. Announcing this in the city today, Mr S.P. Sharma, Director General, Bureau of ... More
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