Agriculture


Going cheap!
Traders in Gudimalkapur vegetable market in Hyderabad are busy arranging tomatoes.

Floriculture
Nabard rose gardens yield good returns
THE cultivation of rose gardens, re-financed by the National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development (Nabard) at Pitchatur in Chittoor district of Andhra Pradesh, about 50 km from Chennai, seems to have been paying rich dividends to small farmers.

Food & Dairy Products
Slowdown in milk production denied
THE National Cooperative Dairy Federation of India Ltd (NCDFI) has refuted claims about a `serious crisis of productivity' in the dairy sector involving declining growth trends in milk production over the last decade.

Sugar
No takers for 30 PSU sugar mills in UP
THERE are hardly any serious takers for the 30 UP-based public sector sugar mills that were notified for takeover, merger, amalgamation, lease or joint venture by Industrial Finance Corporation of India Ltd (IFCI).

Technology
IIT signs pact with RPRC for bio-tech protocols
IN an initiative aimed at facilitating entrepreneurship in the farm sector, the Science and Technology Entrepreneurs Park (STEP) of Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur (IIT-KGP), has entered into a collaboration agreement with the Regional Plant Re source Centre (RPRC), Bhubaneswar, for exchange of a series of plant and biotechnology protocols.

Borlaug for PSU-led bio-tech programme
RENOWNED agricultural scientist and Nobel Laureate, Dr Norman Borlaug, has said the Government should have a strong bio-technology programme in the public sector to counter the monopoly of private multinational corporations in this sector.

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