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CLIMATE & WEATHER: Kharif crops in over 18 lakh hectares affected
Late burst of monsoon may boost rabi crop plantings. New Delhi, Sept. 19 Over 18 lakh hectares (lh) of area planted under kharif crops in the current year have been affected due to floods till end-August, according to the provisional estimates ...

TEA: Exports beef up Kanan Devan’s balance sheet
Insulates price-realisations from domestic market. Kochi Sep 19 While several Indian tea plantations continue to be dogged by falling yields and dwindling bottom line, the net profit of Kanan Devan Hills Plantations Company grew by 52 per cent ...

TEA: Clarification
With reference to the news story "Quality fears grip tea sector as exports rise" that appeared in these columns on September 19, the quotes attributed to Mr N. Sriram, Chief Executive Officer of Contemporary Tea Brokers Ltd, in the context ...

TEA: Organic tea development project launched
Kolkata, Sept. 19 The Tea Board, in partnership with the Inter-Governmental Group on commodities of Food & Agriculture Organisation (FAO-IGG), the UN body, the Common Fund for Commodities (CFC), another UN outfit, and ...

GOLD & SILVER: Record gold guinea delivery on MCX
Mumbai, Sept 19 The delivery of gold guinea on Multi Commodity Exchange (MCX) has increased more than double in last one month. MCX recorded the highest delivery of 8,900 coins (71.20 kgs valued at Rs 8.66 crore) in the Gold Guinea ...

CLIMATE & WEATHER: Westerly rolls in, presages heavy falls in northwest
Thiruvananthapuram, Sept 19 A western disturbance has crossed in from the international border into northwest India and, according to forecasts, would set up a productive interaction with the prevailing monsoon depression hovering over ...

RICE: AP rice millers seek power subsidy
Vijayawada, Sept. 19 Rice millers are being portrayed as cheats and hoarders following raids on some mills in the State in recent times and this public perception does not do them justice, as they are honest citizens striving to do their bit ...

RUBBER: Spot rubber rules steady
Kottayam, Sept. 19 Spot rubber finished almost steady on Friday. Though sellers stayed back listening to the positive reports from the Japanese markets, the domestic prices failed to react lacking follow-up support from the consuming ...

SPICES & CONDIMENTS: Pepper futures up a tad on buying support
Kochi, Sept. 19 Pepper futures market on Friday witnessed high volatility and after going up it went down and closed marginally up on buying ...

JUTE: Plans to start jute e-auction
Kolkata, Sept 19 Mjunction Services Ltd and East India Jute & Hessian Exchange (EIJ&HE) are set to sign a memorandum of understanding to jointly launch e-auction of jute and ...

TEA: Firm trend at Kochi tea auction
Kochi, Sept 19 Good general demand coupled with lower arrivals propped up prices at the Kochi dust tea auction. CTC varieties firmed up by Rs 10-20. Firm demand was witnessed from major blenders and loose tea traders. There was 8.84 lakh kg ...






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Markets (Sept 19)
Nifty (at close)4245.25(+207.10)
US Dollar (Buy/Sell)46.34/35
Brent crude (a bbl) Rs4,238
Gold (a gram) Rs1,165
Silver (a kg) Rs19,475


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