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AGRI-BIZ & COMMODITIES
COMMODITIES:
Inflation rate dips to 0.13%; food still dearer
Wholesale Price Index of all commodities at 232.6. New Delhi, June 11 The annual wholesale price index (WPI)-based inflation rate has further slipped from 0.48 to 0.13 per cent for the week ended May ...
INSIGHT:
Price conscious
It is that time of the year when farmers across the country start planting major crops (paddy, jowar, bajra, maize, groundnut, soyabean and cotton) for the kharif season, due for harvest about four months from now. It is also the time for ...
INSIGHT:
Nurture investment in horticulture
The recently concluded international horticulture expo and conference at New Delhi’s Pragati Maidan threw up some interesting thoughts on the current status and future growth of the sector. As is well known, India is the world’ s ...
TEA:
Golden leaf award boosts tea quality
Coimbatore, June 11 The Golden Leaf India Award (TGLIA), an annual event organised by the United Planters Association of South India, appears to have triggered positive competition among tea producers to ...
OILSEEDS & EDIBLE OIL:
Palm oil imports hurting coconut oil demand
Prices drop to Rs 4,750 a quintal on shift by bulk buyers. Dumping cheap palm oil in the Indian market has squeezed the demand for coconut oil mainly from bulk buyers and that in turn has pushed down coconut oil prices to their lowest levels, ...
SPICES & CONDIMENTS:
Pepper futures market declines on bearish sentiment
Kochi, June 11 The pepper futures market on Thursday witnessed high volatility on conflicting overseas reports on Vietnamese prices and eventually closed below Wednesday’s price after being bullish for the past two ...
TEA:
Tea import value, volume up in Jan-April
India imported more tea at a higher average price, between January and April this year, than that in the corresponding period of last year, according to statistics released by the Indian Tea ...
SUGAR:
Delayed monsoon may hit sugarcane yield
Pune, June 11 The yield of sugarcane in Maharashtra during the 2009-10 crushing season may be hit in case of a further delay in the onset of ...
CLIMATE & WEATHER:
Weak offshore trough spells rains for west coast
Thiruvananthapuram, June 11 A north-south trough has reappeared linking east Uttar Pradesh and north coastal Andhra Pradesh signalling the weak phase of the larger southwest ...
POULTRY:
Birds of a feather
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WATER:
MoU inked for Kuttanad water study
Thiruvananthapuram, June 11 A joint team comprising experts from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Chennai, and the Centre for Water Resources Development and Management (CWRDM), Kozhikode, will carry out scientific studies to improve ...
RUBBER:
Spot rubber turns weak
Kottayam, June 11 Spot rubber turned weak on Tuesday. According to sources the prices were slowly reacting to the buyer resistance even though there was no selling pressure in the main marketing centres. The weakness in domestic and ...
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G Chandrashekhar
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Sharad Joshi
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