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Saturday, April 04, 2009
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Business Daily from THE HINDU group of publications Saturday, April 04, 2009 ePaper | Mobile/PDA Version | Audio | Blogs |
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COMMODITIES: Never mind lower inflation, here’s why you’re still paying more for food Chennai, April 3 The inflation rate has dropped to almost zero, but the prices that you pay for food continue to remain high, especially for essentials such as rice, sugar and ... SPICES & CONDIMENTS: Pepper production gets hit by quickwilt disease Output seen dropping 10% to 45,000-50,000 tonnes. Meenangadi (Kerala), April 3 Pepper production in Wayanad, the second major producing district of the commodity in Kerala, has fallen sharply this year due to diseases, mainly quickwilt with the ... CLIMATE & WEATHER: Bay storm may spare India, head to Myanmar Thunder squalls will punctuate weather in the Northeast for at least five more days even as satellites scanning the Bay of Bengal yielded more information on evolving stormy weather in the ... COTTON: Cotton Corp sells 61 lakh bales till March Mumbai, April 3 Cotton Corporation of India (CCI), the nodal government agency for procurement of cotton under MSP (minimum support price), has sold 61 lakh bales (lb) till March out of the total procurement of ... OILSEEDS & EDIBLE OIL: Sunflower farmers told to sell crop Imports to keep prices on leash. Coimbatore, April 3 The steep decline of over 30 per cent in the price of sunflower has come as a big blow to growers of this ... COFFEE: Instant coffee exports dip on poor Russian demand Bangalore, April 3 Poor demand for instant coffees prompted by the global economic downturn has dragged down the Indian coffee exports for ... RUBBER: Spot rubber prices recover Kottayam, April 3 The physical rubber prices made a smart come back on Friday. Another spurt in international and domestic rubber futures coupled with an extremely dry weather which put almost a halt to tapping has kept the domestic buyers ... SPICES & CONDIMENTS: Pepper futures bullish on domestic demand Kochi, April 3 Upward trend continued in pepper futures for the third day on Friday on speculative activities by operators and strong ... TEA: Glendale special tea fetches Rs 850 a kg at Kochi sales Kochi April 3 A consignment of 150 kg of specialty tea from Glendale estate fetched the record price of Rs 850 a kg at the Kochi Leaf Tea Auction held this week. The SFTGFOP grade tea fetched the highest prices recorded for auctions for ... Columnists: • G Chandrashekhar • Sharad Joshi Comments & Letters to the Editor to: bleditor@thehindu.co.in Subscribe to: Business Line |
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