The Hindu Business Line : Thursday, November 22, 2007

COMMODITY EXCHANGES
NMCE knowledge management centre in Kochi soon
Kochi Nov. 21 With the objective of educating farmers on commodity markets, the National Multi Commodity Exchange of India (NMCE) is considering setting up a Knowledge Management Centre in Kochi. The centre is expected to become ... More

CULTIVATION
AP plea on hiking crop prices
Assembly passes resolution More

RUBBER
Mixed trend in spot rubber
Kottayam, Nov. 21 The domestic rubber prices showed a mixed trend on Wednesday reacting to the news that the Government favours checks on rubber futures. In spot, RSS 4 finished flat at Rs 94 a kg respectively at Kottayam and Kochi taking ... More

TEA
Turkey could open new avenues for tea exports
‘Can act as gateway to the EU, Central Asia’ More

Coonoor tea auctions offer plunges to 23-week low
Coonoor, Nov. 21 An analysis of the catalogues of the various brokers shows that the offer for the sale no: 47 of the auctions of the Coonoor Tea Trade Association (CTTA) to be held here on Thursday and Friday is the lowest of the last 23 ... More

ALUMINIUM
Growing opportunities seen for India in aluminium
Industry to come up with mission document More

Hindalco plans to raise capacity
Hyderabad, Nov. 21 Hindalco Industries Ltd is poised to expand its brownfield plants while creating new greenfield projects aimed at taking the overall aluminium generation capacity to about 1.5-1.6 million tonnes per annum.This would ... More

Dropping prices
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GOLD & SILVER
RiddhiSiddhi set to launch spot e-trading in gold, silver
Set to go live in 20 days in Mumbai, Hyderabad, Ahmedabad More

AGRICULTURAL INSTITUTIONS
Tata Chem joins Icrisat’s sorghum consortium
Hyderabad, Nov. 21 Tata Chemicals Ltd (TCL) has signed an agreement to join the Sweet Sorghum Ethanol Research Consortium, promoted by International Crops Research Institute for Semi-Arid Tropics (Icrisat).Dr William Dar, ... More

SPICES & CONDIMENTS
Chilli drops on weak spot market
Mumbai, Nov. 21 Following the overnight gain on the international markets, soya complex opened bullish on NCDEX, but gave in much of the gains to close almost flat.Soyabean futures fell 0.14 per cent to Rs 1,766 per quintal, while soya ... More

New norms hit pepper futures
Kochi, Nov. 21 Pepper futures market witnessed sharp fall on Wednesday following the exchange’s decision to introduce new outbound tolerance limits for pepper with immediate effect.As a result, there were no takers for November. ... More

EVENTS
Call for micro-propagation of neem
Efforts sought for magnifying the reach of miracle plant More

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