The Hindu Business Line : Saturday, February 26, 2005

Falling grain stocks ease subsidy bill by 12 pc
THE decline in public foodgrain stocks and accompanying reduction in the carrying costs borne by the Food Corporation of India (FCI) has helped in significantly containing the Centre's spiralling food subsidy bill. The 2004-05 Union Budget had ... More

CLIMATE & WEATHER

METSIGNS
Isolated rain forecast for Kerala
THE Met office, Thiruvananthapuram, has predicted rain at isolated places in the districts of Thrissur, Ernakulam, Alappuzha, Kottayam, Idukki, Pathanamthitta, Kollam and Thiruvananthapuram in a forecast valid until Saturday (February 26). ... More

ANIMALS & LIVESTOCK

Call to set up council for veterinary research
THE time has arrived for the Union Government to contemplate setting up a national council for veterinary research, a la the Indian Council for Agricultural Research, to preserve the native germplasm and promote research, according to Dr N. ... More

CULTIVATION

Bamboo mission to provide new impetus for growth
THE Government is seriously considering promoting bamboo cultivation with the functional of the National Mission on Bamboo Applications in the last six months. The Technology Information, Forecasting and Assessment Council (TIFAC) is ... More

RUBBER

Rubber prices increase as fears over VAT effect recede
NATURAL rubber prices have recovered from the downward pressure created by the confusion over the implementation of VAT from the next fiscal, and moved up during the week. The benchmark RSS (ribbed smoked sheet) 4 grade closed at Rs 51.75 a kg ... More

TEA

Indian teas post highest rise in 2004
INDIAN teas posted the highest improvement in prices in 2004 over the previous year as per analysis of the latest information from the auction centres across the globe. Indian teas fetched $1.43 a kg on the average in 2004 against $1.2 in the ... More

WATER

`Bachawat Award flouted'

DAIRY & DAIRY PRODUCTS

Madurai Aavin sets sales record
MADURAI: The Madurai District Co-operative Milk Producers' Union, Aavin Madurai, has set a sales record for the first time, selling 1,21,100 litres of milk a day. Till a couple of years ago, it sold only about 75,000 litres a day. The ... More

OILSEEDS & EDIBLE OIL

Vanaspati makers seek duty relief
VANASPATI producers have urged the Government to waive the excise duty currently levied at the rate of Rs 1,250 per tonne so that the beleaguered industry receives some relief from the steep increase of 15 percentage points in Customs duty on its ... More

Nafed `fully geared' to procure mustard
THE National Agricultural Cooperative Marketing Federation of India Ltd (Nafed) on Friday said it was "fully geared" to procure "massive quantities" of mustardseed under the Centre's Price Support Scheme (PSS). The Deputy Managing Director of ... More

SPICES & CONDIMENTS

`UK reports not giving fair picture on Indian chilli'
THE recent reports in a section of the media on Indian chillies in the UK do not present a true and fair picture of what prevails in the field of chilli export from the country, according to the All India Spices Exporters Forum ... More

AGRICULTURAL POLICY

AP Chilli farmers block traffic, serve notice
CHILLI farmers led by the Andhra Pradesh Rythu Sangham, affiliated to the CPI, blocked traffic in front of the chilli market yard here for more than an hour on Friday, demanding that the State Government announce a market intervention scheme for ... More

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