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Saturday, July 11, 2009
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Business Daily from THE HINDU group of publications Saturday, July 11, 2009 ePaper | Mobile/PDA Version | Audio | Blogs |
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TECHNOLOGY: Soon farmers can control irrigation with a cell phone TATA INDICOM’S ‘NANO GANESH’. Ahmedabad, July 10 Tata Teleservices Ltd today inaugurated a pilot project at Sojitra in Anand district of Gujarat that allows farmers to operate their irrigation pumps from remote locations ... AGRICULTURE: Kharif crops coverage still down Sowing gathers momentum on monsoon’s progress. Chennai, July 10 Coverage of almost all kharif crops, barring cotton, maize and castor, continued to lag behind, though there was improvement from the situation witnessed ... MARKETING: NAFED plans retail expansion National Agricultural Cooperative Marketing Federation of India Ltd (NAFED) has planned a retail expansion by appointing franchisees to run outlets called NAFED Bazaar for sale of consumer products, Mr K. V. Thomas, Minister of State ... HORTICULTURE/FRUITS & VEGETABLES: More mangoes for Delhi The South Central Railway (SCR) has transported 34,314 tonnes of mangoes in 1,323 wagons to New Delhi from Nuzivid station, the hub for all mango exports from Andhra Pradesh, during April-June 2009. “We could transport 4,830 tonnes more ... SPICES & CONDIMENTS: Trade bitter over absence of Budget proposal to change Customs duty on select spices The Budget proposals have not made any changes in the import duty for cloves, poppy-seeds, arecanuts. This has disappointed the traders who have been urging the Union Finance Minister to fix kg-based duty, to check their imports through ... CLIMATE & WEATHER: Spill-over rains wet parts of parched north-west Thiruvananthapuram, July 10 Latest predictions confirming El Nino trends in the equatorial Pacific came on a day when widely separated rains, ranging from sparse to moderately heavy, wetted central India and even the parched ... SPICES & CONDIMENTS: Pepper futures slip; demand hits dry patch Kochi, July 10 The pepper futures market witnessed high fluctuations on Friday and after firming up in the afternoon it declined and closed below Thursday’s levels on bearish operations. There was no selling pressure on spot. ... AGRICULTURAL POLICY: Don’t ignore model farmers, AP tells agri officials Hyderabad, July 10 The Andhra Pradesh Government has asserted that the system of model farmers (aadarsha rythus) would continue irrespective of which political party is ... STORAGE: Central aid for cold chain storage New Delhi, July 10 The Minister of Food Processing Industries, Mr Subodh Kant Sahay, told Parliament on Thursday that cold chain storage, value addition and preservation infrastructure would get financial assistance from the Government as part ... RUBBER: Sheet rubber prices drop on resistance from buyers Kottayam, July 10 The physical rubber prices continued to show a mixed trend on Friday. Sheet rubber moved down to Rs 97 from Rs 97.50 a kg on buyer resistance. Ungraded rubber and ISNR 20 were flat amidst scattered transactions while latex ... Columnists: • G Chandrashekhar • Sharad Joshi Comments & Letters to the Editor to: bleditor@thehindu.co.in Subscribe to: Business Line |
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