The Hindu Business Line : Saturday, September 02, 2006

CLIMATE & WEATHER
Warming Pacific may fire up NE monsoon in peninsula
The current climatological outlook for southern India could change in the IRI forecasts from September if the tropical Pacific does warm further. It is possible that this could force a review of the forecasts, which for now "do not indicate any parti cular deviation from climatology for the southern Indian peninsula." More

ANIMALS & LIVESTOCK
BV Biologicals sets up biocontainment plant
Unit has potential to counter bioterrorism, infectious diseases More

INSIGHT
Australia-India Trade — Gold that's put to use more gold begets
For Australia, India is becoming increasingly important primarily because it has become its sixth largest export market. Gold is a critical element in this trade and is now Australia's main export to India. More

COMMODITIES
Inflation dips marginally on lower energy prices
Fruits, vegetables & wheat dearer; imported oil, oil cakes cheaper More

RUBBER
Spot rubber remains steady
The physical rubber prices finished unchanged on Friday. The market activities were dull lacking follow-up buying or selling as the reports from the international markets stayed almost neutral. Sheet rubber RSS 4 closed static at Rs 87 a kg at ... More

TEA
Rs 4,500-cr tea revival fund by November
The Centre, as part of its three-pronged strategy to support the plantation sector, would make operational a revival fund of Rs 4,500 crore for tea by November next, according to Mr Jairam Ramesh, Union Minister of State for ... More

Good demand lifts prices at Kochi tea sale
Good general demand propped up prices at the Kochi tea auction. There was 9,05,000 kg of dust tea on offer and CTC bolder grades moved up by Rs 2-4. Prices of high grown CTC varieties remained steady to dearer by Rs 1-3, while medium CTC moved ... More

DAIRY & DAIRY PRODUCTS
Leaky sachets, not pesticides, are the most frequent complaint
Twenty lakh litres of milk per day is what Tamilnadu Co-operative Milk Producers' Federation Ltd (TCMPF) processes and sells in Chennai and district markets. More popularly known by the brand Aavin, the Federation has a 65 per cent of market ... More

SPICES & CONDIMENTS
Pepper futures market moves up
Buying support coupled with reports of tight supply position in the world market has pushed up the pepper futures market on Friday. All the futures contracts on the major exchanges showed a substantial rise. September contract on NCDEX on ... More

EVENTS
Aquaculture expo in Jan
The Marine Products Export Development Authority (MPEDA) is organising the third INDAQUA at Chennai from January 11-13, 2007. The main objective of the event is to give further impetus to the country's aquaculture sector, augment the production ... More