The Hindu Business Line : Saturday, March 03, 2007

Metal futures post quantum jump on NMCE
Futures trading in base metals — aluminium, copper, lead, nickel, tin and zinc — posted a quantum jump at the National Multi-Commodity Exchange (NMCE) as the February 2007 series expired on Wednesday. These metals are traded in ... More

INVESTMENTS
Parsoli to encourage more investment in precious metals
In talks with BNP Paribas to evolve investment products More

AQUACULTURE
National aquaculture centre to be opened at Kakinada today
The National Centre for Sustainable Aquaculture (NaCSA) is to be inaugurated here on Saturday by the Union Minister of State for Commerce, Mr Jairam Ramesh. Mr M.M. Pallam Raju, Union Minister of State for Defence, representing the Kakinada Lok ... More

INSIGHT
For farm sector, time to go beyond the Budget
The Budget is merely a statement of intent and a work plan. For it to deliver, implementation is the key. Here is where the plan fails, and throwing money at the problem is not going to solve it. Policy-makers must find out if the returns from invest ments in agriculture are commensurate and tweak plans accordingly. They must also realise that Budgets by themselves will not deliver agriculture from its traditional yoke, says K. P. PRABHAKARAN NAIR. More

BUDGET
`Budget has made an effort to address farming risks'
`Missing links must be looked at for low production despite high credit' More

RUBBER
Spot rubber prices weaken
Spot rubber prices weakened on Friday. Most of the international indices were bearish though TOCOM managed to finish the session in green on weekend short covering. The domestic buyer resistance continued to weigh heavily on the traders, while ... More

SUGAR
Sugar stocks stage comeback amid bearish condition
Domestic prices expected to go up from June More

TEA
Golden Leaf tea tasting competition on March 22
The final tea tasting session and the award ceremony of the third edition of The Golden Leaf India Awards: Southern Tea Competition (TIGLIA) will be held here on March 22. The response has been good and there was 10 per cent increase from that ... More

FOODGRAINS
Call to ban forward trading in maize
The National Egg Co-ordination Committee (NECC) has urged the Union Finance Minsiter, Mr P. Chidambaram, to impose a ban on forward trading in maize, as he did in wheat and rice, as it is making life miserable for the poultry farmers and the egg ... More

POULTRY
NECC seeks ban on maize futures
The all-India poultry growers body, National Egg Coordination Committee (NECC), has expressed disappointed over the Centre's inaction on the demand from the NECC for removing maize from the list of items permitted under forward ... More

SPICES & CONDIMENTS
Bearish trend grips pepper futures market
If the bulls pushed up the market on Thursday the bears in their turn pulled it down on Friday. "An online gambling is in reality going on in the pepper futures market," market observers told Business Line. Some of the leading ... More

Jeera futures down on weather forecast
Lack of demand at higher levels coupled with a clear weather forecast in Rajasthan pushed down Jeera futures on NCDEX by 2.64 per cent to Rs 11,026 per quintal. Both varieties of potato futures on MCX moved in opposite directions. ... More

Increasing exports
MAY TOP RS 3,000 CRORE: Spices kept for sale at a retail shop in Kochi. Exports of spices have increased along with rise in unit value of value-added products and could top Rs 3,000 crore this fiscal. Total shipments during April-December of ... More