The Hindu Business Line : Wednesday, January 31, 2007

CLIMATE & WEATHER
Deep westerly trough churning weather in North India
The warm front-end of the westerly trough has already triggered light to moderate showers across the plains. More

AQUACULTURE
Primitive technique
FISHERMAN ENGAGED in fishing the traditional way at Manglajodi-Chilika Lake in Orissa.

PLANTATIONS
Plantation panel enlarges insurance cover scheme
Recommendations to be referred to Group of Ministers More

RUBBER
Spot rubber stays firm
A corrective phase in global rubber futures kept spot rubber almost neutral with a weak undercurrent on Tuesday. The trendsetting Japanese market lost grip on bull liquidation at higher levels. Sheet rubber closed unchanged at Rs 100.50 a kg ... More

TEA
Tea prices ease at Coimbatore sale
The total offerings of tea at the weekly auction amounted to 6.32 lakh kg comprising 2.86 lakh kg of tea leaf and the rest dust. Compared to the fair demand during the previous three weeks, the market remained generally easy last week.Both the ... More

DAIRY & DAIRY PRODUCTS
Milk dearer in AP coastal towns
Milk is becoming dearer in the coastal districts, with the two major co-operative dairies (Vijaya Dairy at Vijayawada and Visakha Dairy at Visakhapatnam) increasing the retail price by Re 1 to Rs 2 per litre, citing the increase ... More

OILSEEDS & EDIBLE OIL
Call to increase area under veg oil crops
In the wake of growing import bill and demand More

CASHEW
Brazil likely to join global cashew alliance
May sign tri-partite pact with India, Vietnam in April More

COFFEE
MCX coffee futures post 1.38% gain
A day after its launch, futures trading in coffee on MCX ended with a gain of 1.38 per cent at Rs. 7,132 per quintal on a turnover of Rs 2.66 crore. Taking a cue from Agra spot prices, potato futures on MCX were up 2.78 per cent at Rs 517 per ... More

EVENTS
Mumbai to host multiple commodity meet
"The event seeks to provide a neutral platform to stakeholders to discuss issues threadbare, arrive at policy inputs and share market outlook." More

Nabard to hold credit seminar
The National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development (Nabard) is organising a `State credit seminar 2007-08' on February 1 at its regional office here. The participants will include senior executives of Nabard, the RBI, ... More

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