AGRI-BIZ & COMMODITIES
RICE
Rice ships stranded at Kakinada
Twelve ships are now stranded at the anchorage port, awaiting customs clearance for more than a week, following the decision of the Union Government to impose ban on export of non-basmati rice. Kakinada old port is badly hit because of the ...
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CLIMATE & WEATHER
NE monsoon seeks launch window
Thiruvananthapuram, Oct. 16 The withdrawal of southwest monsoon made no further progress on Wednesday relative to its position the previous day thanks largely to the drag created by the rogue ‘low’ persisting over Bangladesh and ...
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INSIGHT
Multilateralism is here to stay
Will the collapse of the Doha Round lead to the end of multilateralism? Not necessarily, as there is every likelihood of a transparent, non-discriminatory framework for international trade emerging. In this system, nation states are likely to play a subordinate role.
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FERTILISERS
Fertiliser subsidy: Scope to be expanded
To shift to nutrient-based regime
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RUBBER
Spot rubber zooms as growers hold back stocks
Kottayam, Oct. 16 The rubber prices zoomed to exciting highs taking support from favourable fundamental and technical factors in the domestic and international scene on Tuesday. Most of the traders and growers began to hold the stocks ...
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‘Ample stocks of rubber available’
Kottayam, Oct. 16 Though there has been a shortage of 62,000 tonnes in production during the first half of the current fiscal compared with the same period last year, there would not be any problems relating to the availability of rubber as ...
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TEA
Concor tariff on tea irks Irugur ICD users
Coimbatore, Oct. 16 Container Corporation of India (Concor), managing the inland container terminal at Irugur, Coimbatore, has slapped a special tariff of Rs 2,000 for local transport of house-stuffed tea consignments much to the chagrin of ...
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Tezpore Tea gets nod for estate sale
Tezpore Tea Company Ltd has informed the BSE that members of the company by way of postal ballot have passed an ordinary resolution for sale or transfer or other disposal of the whole or any part of the undertaking and business including, land, ...
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GOLD & SILVER
Gold futures subdued
Mumbai, Oct. 16 Domestic gold futures were subdued till late on Tuesday evening with the yellow metal rising by Rs 37 per 10 gm from the previous day’s close, a gain of less than four basis points. On MCX, gold futures for ...
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SPICES & CONDIMENTS
Bears pull down pepper futures
Kochi, Oct. 16 Pepper futures market after witnessing wild and wide fluctuations during the day closed below Monday’s levels. The bulls and bears were seen competing to push up and pull down the prices.There was no selling ...
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WTO
India okay with WTO draft texts circulating in Geneva: PM
Liberalising agriculture and industrial tariffs
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EVENTS
Food security
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EXPORTS & IMPORTS
Non-basmati rice prices crash on export ban
Pusa-1121 rates drop to Rs 1,900 a quintal in Haryana mandis
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STANDARDS & BENCHMARKS
CSA cautions against imported packaged foods
The Centre for Sustainable Agriculture (CSA), a city-based NGO working in non-pesticide management agriculture, has cautioned that the imported packaged foods from retail stores could be made of GM (genetically modified) ...
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