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AGRI-BIZ & COMMODITIES

COMMODITIES: Inflation rate drops on cheaper agri products
Wholesale Price Index of all commodities at 241. New Delhi, Oct. 3 Inflation slowed to a 13-week low after remaining above the 12 per cent mark for 12 straight weeks. The annual Wholesale Price Index-based inflation rose 11.99 per cent in the ...

MARKETING: Linking farms and corporates
INCLUSIVE GROWTH. Chennai, Oct 3 There have been some splendid examples of what happens when those living at the very beginning of the process of value addition meet collaborate with those living at the very end. The results are ...

OUTLOOK: Slowing Chinese demand spells bleak future for steel
Mumbai, Oct. 3 The deterioration in global macro-economic conditions suggests a weakening demand environment for metals through the remainder of ...

SPICES & CONDIMENTS: Fertiliser shortage hits cardamom plantations
Growers using high cost imported substitutes. Kochi, Oct 3 Short supply of indigenously manufactured fertilisers is compelling the cardamom planters to use high cost imported ...

AQUACULTURE: Global tuna prices surge
Kochi, Oct. 3 As arrivals continued to remain low, tuna prices have firmed up in global ...

CLIMATE & WEATHER: Monsoon withdrawal may be disrupted again
Western disturbance likely middle of next week. Thiruvananthapuram, Oct 3 An incoming western disturbance is set to join an existing network of cyclonic circulations straddling the north and south of the country to decide on localised weather ...

EVENTS: ‘Weeds are agents of bio-terror’
Besides posing a challenge to increasing food production, weeds, according to Dr C. Ramaswamy, Vice-Chancellor, Tamil Nadu Agricultural University, are agents of ...

HUMAN RESOURCES: Labour banks
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SPICES & CONDIMENTS: Bears pull down pepper futures
Kochi, Oct 3 Pepper futures market fell sharply on Friday on bearish activities. October contract dropped by Rs 217 to Rs 13,820 a quintal below the spot price for MG 1. Similarly, November also dropped by Rs 222 a quintal to Rs 13,850, below ...

RUBBER: Sheet rubber drops to Rs 106/kg
Kottayam, Oct. 3 Spot rubber prices fell deep in to the minus territory on Friday. The market lost heavily as it followed the global sentiments when resumed trading after the holiday on Thursday owing to Gandhi ...

POULTRY: Producers cut chicken prices
The ongoing Navratri season and the austere Tamil month of Purattasi (Sept 15-Oct 15) are seen as a cause enough to impact egg consumption, affecting the sale of eggs and the price sentiment in ...

EVENTS: Ryots’ body to hold protests on Oct 22
Hyderabad, Oct. 3 To step up pressure on the Central and State Governments, the National Alliance of Farmers Associations (NAFA) has decided to organise nationwide protests on ...

RICE: Paddy procurement centres
Twenty-two direct procurement centres have been opened in the district for paddy procurement, the District Collector, Mr M. Jayaraman, said in a press release on Friday. This was in addition to the 99 centres established earlier. The collector ...





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