The Hindu Business Line : Tuesday, June 24, 2008

CLIMATE & WEATHER
Buzzing peninsular seas raring to go
Thiruvananthapuram, June 23 There is increasing convergence in international and domestic weather model prognostications about the possibility of the peninsular seas breaking into a song later this week to send the monsoon pirouetting to a ... More

INSIGHT
Fertiliser policy: Time to take hard decisions
In recent times, fertilisers have been catapulted to the centre-stage for the following reasons: Ballooning fertiliser subsidy that is likely to touch the Rs 100,000-crore mark during 2008-09; More

RUBBER
Spot rubber prices firm on yen’s strength
Kottayam, June 23 Spot rubber prices rates firmed up on Monday. Another positive closing in Japanese futures followed by yen’s strength against the dollar catalysed the domestic sentiments and sheet rubber RSS 4 moved up to Rs 126 from ... More

TEA
Coonoor tea auctions fetch Rs 43 cr more
Coonoor, June 23 Producers who sold their teas through the auctions of the Coonoor Tea Trade Association (CTTA) in the first five months of this calendar earned Rs 42.72 crore more than the corresponding period of last year. An ... More

Darjeeling tea planters seek exemption from bandh
Kolkata, June 23 The Darjeeling tea planters, in an appeal, have urged the Gorkha Janamukti Morcha to reconsider its decision not to exempt the tea gardens in Darjeeling district from the purview of the bandh that has been called off for ... More

WATER
‘Food security is in dryland water harvesting’
Coimbatore, June 23 Water conservation management should focus on dryland agriculture to ensure food and nutritional security of India as 60 per cent of the country’s 143 million hectares of cultivable lands come under rain-fed areas, an ... More

TOBACCO
Tobacco Board to launch pilot project on alternative crop
1,050 farmers of Bhadrachalam in AP to be trained More

COMMODITY MARKETS
Maize prices gain further
Maize prices spurted yet again this week giving fresh worries to the poultry feed and starch manufacturers. The market yard prices climbed up to Rs 8,300-8,500 a tonne, Rs 500 more than the previous week’s prices.The spot prices ... More

Maize futures witness hectic activities
Mumbai, June 23 After a lull, the ban syndrome seems to have gripped the futures trading in commodity again. Maize futures on NCDEX witnessed hectic activities on reports that the Centre may consider a ban on maize exports to rein in the run ... More

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