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CULTIVATION: Sugar mills sweeten offer for cane cultivation
Lure farmers with higher prices, incentives fearing shortage. Chennai, April 2 Sugar mills are encouraging farmers to go in for cane cultivation with higher prices and incentives, fearing sugarcane shortage as farmers divert to ...

COMMODITIES: Inflation rate inches up marginally to 0.31%
Wholesale Price Index for all commodities at 227.3. New Delhi, April 2 Inflation rate edged up marginally on Thursday but remained close to ...

AGRICULTURAL INSTITUTIONS: Nabard Bengal to focus on financial inclusion
Kolkata, April 2 The West Bengal Regional Office of Nabard has registered 19 per cent rise in outstanding business volume at Rs 3,443 crore as on March 31, 2009, against Rs 2,887 crore in the corresponding period last year, according to Mr ...

CLIMATE & WEATHER: Squally weather to last for 3 more days in East, N-E
The squally weather in East and North-East India, which has already caused considerable loss to life and property, will continue to hold for three more ...

SPICES & CONDIMENTS: Surge continues in cloves prices
Tight supplies, crop failure in most origins. The cloves market continued to witness an upsurge in prices, on severe squeeze in supply due to crop failure in the country and other origins, and the trend is likely to continue for days ...

AGRICULTURAL INSTITUTIONS: Icrisat sounds warning on food front
Hyderabad, April 2 International Crops Research Institute for Sem-Arid Tropics (Icrisat) has cautioned the developing countries that the reduction in food prices globally is just a lull and that they need to get ready with plans to address ...

FARM CREDIT: Fall in crop loan disbursals by Nabard in Gujarat
Ahmedabad, April 2 The short-term crop loans disbursed by the National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development in Gujarat in 2008-09 decreased to Rs 665.27 crore from Rs 803.28 crore in the previous ...

COMMODITY MARKETS: Spot bourse to launch contracts in wheat, maize
Mumbai, April 2 National Spot Exchange (NSEL), a subsidiary of Financial Technologies, has recorded a turnover of Rs 617 crore in the last five months of its operations. The exchange last week recorded the highest daily turnover of Rs ...

TEA: Natural disaster
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RUBBER: Spot rubber gains on global cues
Kottayam, April 2 Spot rubber showed a better trend on Thursday. Moderate gains in the international rubber prices and the growers’ absence in the sellers queue seemed to be inspiring the traders to wait for a recovery in the market. ...

DAIRY & DAIRY PRODUCTS: Amul’s turnover doubles in 3 years
Anand, April 2 Gujarat Co-operative Milk Marketing Federation Ltd (GCMMF), the apex cooperative organisation marketing the Amul brand of milk products, has registered a quantum growth of 28 per cent to reach a record turnover of Rs 6,705 ...

SPICES & CONDIMENTS: Upward swing continues in pepper futures
Pepper futures market that went up steeply on Wednesday continued its upward move on Thursday also on good domestic demand and non-availability of ...

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