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COMMODITIES: Cheaper fuel pulls down inflation rate to 8.4%
Wholesale Price Index of all commodities at 233.7. New Delhi, Dec. 4 The annual Wholesale Price Index-based inflation rose 8.4 per cent for the week ended November 22, lower than the previous week’s annual rise of 8.84 per ...

TEA: Demand for Indian tea in Pakistan on the rise
Crash in prices fuels demand for the commodity. Chennai, Dec. 4 Despite Pakistan being blamed for last week’s terrorist attack in Mumbai that claimed nearly 200 lives, the tea industry sees better demand for the beverage from ...

EVENTS: Olives from Ferrari-land
Italy toasts its love for life, with the best of olive oil.. It is with a lot of passion and zeal that most Italians speak about their cuisine and even wine. This borders on veneration when it comes to major producers of olive oil in Italy, as a ...

TEA: Tea e-auctions here to stay
Traders gather around wooden desks in a dusty auditorium, pouring over thick catalogues describing tea chests. A broker seated at the front of the room calls out prices in a quick, rolling voice as the traders shout and gesture, signalling ...

AQUACULTURE: Seafood exporters urged to focus on value-added products
Kochi, Dec. 4 Value-added marine exports should grow by at least 10 per cent a year in order to take Indian seafood exports to $4 billion by 2012, Mr G. Mohan Kumar, Chairman of the Marine Products Export Development Authority, has ...

CLIMATE & WEATHER: Bay storm threatens to hit Lanka
Thiruvananthapuram, Dec. 4 India Meteorological Department (IMD) has said that Wednesday’s low-pressure area over southeast Bay of Bengal concentrated into a depression (numbered 07B) 630 km south-southwest of Port Blair, the ...

TEA: Arrivals surge at Kochi tea auction
Kochi, Dec. 4 Arrivals of both dust and leaf grades continued to be high at the Kochi Tea Auction and prices continued to gravitate ...

DAIRY & DAIRY PRODUCTS: Numero Uno
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RUBBER: Spot rubber declines further on global cues
Kottayam, Dec. 4 The domestic spot rubber surrendered further on Thursday. The prices fell on an almost panic selling from dealers and growers following sharp declines in global indices. Sheet rubber nosedived to Rs 60 from Rs 64 a kg ...

DERIVATIVES MARKETS: Futures trading resumes in 4 commodities
Mumbai, Dec. 4 Belying subdued response, the four commodities – chana, potato, soyoil and rubber – in which futures trading was re-launched, received good trading interest with potato on MCX closing the day with a gain of 11 ...

AQUACULTURE: Shrimp farmers seek compensation
Chennai, Dec. 4 The recent cyclone has destroyed over 1,000 ha shrimp farms and farm infrastructure and machinery estimated at about Rs 150 crore, according to a press release from the Prawn Farmers Federation of ...





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