The Hindu Business Line : Thursday, April 05, 2007

COMMODITY EXCHANGES
Commodity exchanges' turnover
National commodity exchanges have registered 99 per cent jump in their turnover at Rs 40.72 lakh crore for the financial year ended March 31compared with Rs 21.34 lakh crore during the same period of the previous year. MCX has ... More

FARM CREDIT
AP farmers top in indebtedness; total burden put at Rs 11,861 cr
Farmers being forced to sell or give up landholdings More

WHEAT
Wheat output estimate raised to 73.7 m tonnes
The Union Agriculture Ministry has reassessed this year's wheat crop at 73.70 million tonnes (mt), against the earlier 72.50 mt level. Briefing presspersons at the end of a two-day National Conference on Agriculture for kharif campaign 2007-08 ... More

CLIMATE & WEATHER
Consensus growing on `good' monsoon outlook
After several years, the top four international weather models have come out with near-identical forecasts with respect to an evolving southwest monsoon in India. The UK Met Office and the Japanese Meteorological Agency have now joined their US ... More

PULSES
Meet on pulses seeks breaking yield barrier
A two-day annual research meet on pulses at the Tamil Nadu Agricultural University (TNAU) was on Wednesday called to devise a technology package that will break the yield barrier set in the State's output. The package could address the ... More

COMMODITIES
Solar tunnel drier to process Ramanathapuram chillies
ADDING VALUE More

HORTICULTURE/FRUITS & VEGETABLES
VEG EXPO
Native organic vegetables on display in a stall at the `Kisan mela' in Dakshina Kannada district on Wednesday.

RUBBER
Rubber prices steady ahead of holiday
An almost steady trend prevailed in the domestic rubber market on Wednesday. In the physical front, prices remained unchanged as market lacked proper direction in the absence of active buyers and sellers. Weak global indices could not induce ... More

SUGAR
Sugarcane output estimate increased by 40 m tonnes
Sugar production could be in 24-25 million tonnes range More

TEA
14 tea estates to reopen at Idukki
Fourteen tea plantations in Idukki district of Kerala will resume operations within the next three months. An understanding to this effect was reached at a meeting the Union Minister of State for Commerce, Mr Jairam Ramesh, and the State Labour ... More

COTTON
Rising cotton prices worry small spinners
The South India Small Spinners Association (Sisspa) has said the Cotton Corporation of India (CCI) decision to hike cotton prices would only encourage the private trade to further jack up their rates which would upset the small textile mills' raw ... More

COFFEE
MCX delivers 120 tonnes coffee
The first coffee robusta contract launched in MCX expired on March 30 with a delivery of 120 tonnes. Futures trading in coffee was launched on January 29, 2007. "The delivery intention period was for a month to overcome logistic problems ... More

SPICES & CONDIMENTS
Pepper futures shoot up on Vietnam price rise
Spot prices also rise by Rs 400 a quintal More

EVENTS
Murugappa group opens 1-stop outlet for farmers
Farmers should get the inputs they require as well as credit in a single shop, without any hassles, and this will greatly boost agricultural productivity in the country, Mr A. Vellayan, the Chairman of the Coromandel Fertilisers, has said. He ... More

Adopt mechanisation, farmers told
There is a need for farmers to take up mechanisation of agricultural activities to tide over scarcity of labourers, according to Dr D. Veerendra Heggade, Chairman of the Sri Kshetra Dharmasthala Rural Development Project (SKDRDP). Speaking at ... More

EXPORTS & IMPORTS
Tea industry hopeful of another good year
`Increase in prices could be around last year's level' More

Cotton prospects bright for 2007-08
India growers, exporters could benefit More

OUTLOOK
Gold has potential for fresh highs: GFMS
`No surprise if prices cross $725 an ounce this year' More

PEOPLE
Elected Vice-Chairman of Tea Board
Mr J.K. Thomas, Managing Director, Malankara Plantations Ltd, was elected as Vice-Chairman of the Tea Board of India for this year at its meeting held on March 17. He is also the President of the United Planters' Association of ... More

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