AGRI-BIZ & COMMODITIES
ECONOMIC SURVEY
‘AIBP, other irrigation schemes yielding little water for farmers’
Marginal rise in irrigated area under foodgrains
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Slowdown in commodity derivatives trading
No reference to Abhijit Sen panel on essential items futures
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INSIGHT
Plough-back time
The banana farmers of Jalgaon want more “permanent solutions” from the Finance Minister rather than just loan waivers
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EXCISE AND CUSTOMS
Excise duty on sugar raised by Rs 9 a quintal
Levy to help beef up development fund; consumers seen unaffected
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RUBBER
Spot rubber prices pare gains
Kottayam, Feb. 28 Domestic rubber weakened in tune with the declines in Japanese futures. In spot, sheet rubber slipped to Rs 100.50 and Rs 101 from Rs 101 and Rs 101.25 a kg respectively at Kottayam and Kochi on buyer resistance. The ...
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TEA
Domestic tea offtake up 11 mkg in 2007
Coonoor, Feb. 28 It now appears that the fixation of 210 million kg (mkg) as the export target for the tea industry in 2007 was unintended as the actual shipments in 2006 were higher than this. Earlier, exports in 2006 were taken to be ...
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AGRICULTURAL INSTITUTIONS
Caution is the word on 100% FDI in agri banks
Restrict them to unbanked areas; beware corporate farming: Experts
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SPICES & CONDIMENTS
Speculation keeps pepper futures hot
Kochi, Feb. 28 Pepper futures market continued to increase on excessive speculation on Thursday as the prices in all other origins are also on an upsurge. Investors, processors who had sold to investors and exporters with multi-origin ...
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COMMODITY MARKETS
Chilli, jeera hit upper circuit
Mumbai, Feb. 28 Buoyed by the tight supply at the Guntur spot markets, chilli futures on NCDEX hit the upper circuit at 3.67 per cent to Rs 4,185 per quintal. Jeera also hit the upper circuit of two per cent at Rs 9,527 per quintal on ...
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