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AGRI-BIZ & COMMODITIES
OUTLOOK:
Sugar position unclear as opening stock figures vary
Millers project 25 lalk t less than Govt estimates. New Delhi, Dec 25 What was the opening stock of sugar mills at the start of the current 2008-09 crushing season ...
BIO-TECH & GENETICS:
GM crops and their opponents
A statement made by the Union Health Minister, Dr Anbumani Ramadoss, at a farmers’ meeting in Tamil Nadu earlier this month that he would oppose any move to introduce genetically modified (GM) food or seeds has become controversial and ...
SPICES & CONDIMENTS:
Vanilla losing flavour with farmers
Vines cut down or in a state of neglect as prices plummet. Kochi, Dec.25 The prevailing rock bottom prices for vanilla beans are compelling growers in Kerala, who had taken to vanilla cultivation when prices shot up to $450-$500 a kg six ...
CLIMATE & WEATHER:
Mercury falls as anti-cyclone digs its heels
Thiruvananthapuram, Dec. 25 Minimum temperatures have fallen by 2-4 degree Celsius over parts of central and east India as cold and dry northwesterlies funnelled through the border aided and abetted by the seasonal ...
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