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AGRI-BIZ & COMMODITIES METALS: Platinum group metals to rule higher next 10 years But demand for auto-catalyst may face slowdown. Mumbai, Dec. 10 As compared with the average of last 30 years, real and nominal prices of platinum and palladium are forecast to rule at sharply elevated levels over the next 10 years to 2017, the ... ALUMINIUM: Madras Aluminium suspends production Company’s captive power unit to continue power sale. Mumbai, Dec. 10 Following the sharp fall in aluminium prices, Madras Aluminium, a Vedanta Group company, has decided to suspend production with immediate effect ... INTERVIEW: ‘Minimum support prices are not fixed mechanically’ We have to be flexible while fixing the rates: CACP chief. New Delhi, Dec. 10 This year, during kharif sowing, the Centre came up with minimum support prices (MSP) that were “unprecented” in terms of the increase. Even as a decision ... RUBBER: A rubbery toughness As one of the four plantation crops of Kerala, rubber – alongside tea, coffee and cardamom – occupies pride of place in the State’s agricultural economy. But rubber growers in Kerala are in a tizzy now as rubber prices have ... CLIMATE & WEATHER: Monsoon may be active until weekend Thiruvananthapuram, Dec. 10 The persisting low-pressure area over southeast Arabian Sea and adjoining Comorin helped extend the active monsoon regime from coastal Tamil Nadu to adjoining Kerala and ... PLANTATIONS: Sharing of social cost with plantation cos on cards New Delhi, Dec. 10 In order to minimise the social cost currently being incurred by the plantation industry for social welfare schemes, the Department of Commerce has come out with a Central scheme of Rs 1,414 crore in the next five years for ... FERTILISERS: Rs 10,000-cr fertiliser bonds issued ... OILSEEDS & EDIBLE OIL: Row over virgin olive oil import duty Chennai, Dec. 10 Imports of virgin olive oil have landed in a controversy with importers and Customs authorities engaged in a duel over the duty that will have to be paid for bringing this edible oil into ... RUBBER: Spot rubber prices gain Kottayam, Dec. 11 The physical rubber prices showed a better trend on Wednesday. A positive mood in the domestic and international rubber futures kept most of the sellers on the sidelines though there were no revised quotes from the tyre ... TEA: Volume continues to fall at Coonoor tea auction Coonoor, Dec. 10 For the fourth consecutive week, offer for the weekly auctions of Coonoor Tea Trade Association (CTTA) follows a declining trend with the catalogues totalling 13.84 lakh kg for Sale No: 50 to be held tomorrow and Friday. It ... Comments & Letters to the Editor to: bleditor@thehindu.co.in Subscribe to: Business Line |
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