The Hindu Business Line : Friday, March 02, 2007

CULTIVATION
Leading the organic revolution
More women across the country are turning to organic agriculture, as they are the worst victims of chemical farming. More

INSIGHT
A harvest of platitudes for farmers
In the backdrop of the increasing number of farmer suicides, the discontent among the community against the acquisition of its land for the special economic zones (SEZs), and the niggardly rate of agricultural growth, the people at large expected ... More

BUDGET
`No profitable prices for farmers'
Though the Union Budget spoke at length on agriculture, it has failed to spell out specific measures to ensure profitable prices for the farmers' produce which would insulate them against crop failures in subsequent season, ... More

HORTICULTURE/FRUITS & VEGETABLES
Onion exports top record 1 m tonnes
For the first time, onion exports from the country have crossed one million tonnes (mt). This comes even as the Centre, through the National Agricultural Cooperative Marketing Federation of India (Nafed), has announced curbs on shipments ... More

PLANTATIONS
Curbs on arecanut import boost domestic prices
Private traders offer better rates to growers More

RUBBER
Covering buys keep spot rubber steady
Spot rubber closed unchanged on Thursday. The market lacked the strength to move up since there were no quantity buyers in the main marketing centres. But some covering purchases helped the market to sustain at current levels though the ... More

TEA
Record price for Havukal Estate tea
A small parcel of tea comprising of 160 kg of SFTGFOP variety manufactured from the Havukal estates was contracted today at a record price of Rs 800 per kg through a private transaction. The tea was sold by Caritt Moran and ... More

FOODGRAINS
Foodgrains' association unhappy
The Tamilnadu Foodgrains Merchants Association, in a statement here, while welcomingthe Budget proposals such as reduction in duty on sunflower oil, duty cut on petrol and diesel, exclusion of the expenditure on free samples and ... More

OILSEEDS & EDIBLE OIL
`Edible oil market has discounted cut in additional duty'
Prices seen ruling stable; solvent extractors welcome sops for machinery More

CASHEW
Higher volume
LOWER VALUE: A vendor selling fried cashewnut in street corner in Thrissur, Kerala. Exports of cashew from the country increased marginally to 89,586 tonnes, worth Rs 1,866.64 crore, in the first nine months of the current fiscal against 86,404 ... More

SPICES & CONDIMENTS
Cardamom rules steady
Good buying on fears of demand-supply gap More

Pepper futures move up on bull operators
Pepper prices on Thursday moved up in the futures market on bullish activities allegedly based on "buy calls." The prices are pushed up and brought down without any changes in the fundamentals and the small players are caught in between, market ... More

GENERAL INSURANCE
Govt to offer weather-based insurance scheme soon
Could be operational for crops in rain-fed areas More

AGRICULTURAL POLICY
Wheat, rice futures freeze: `A preventive step'
The Centre's decision to suspend forward trade in wheat and rice is a preventive step, rather than a reaction to developments in the market, according to an official of a multi-national firm. "It is a retrogressive move in this day and age" ... More

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