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AGRI-BIZ & COMMODITIES
COMMODITIES:
Potato, onion and sugar prices shoot through the roof
CUT OUT THE FRIES. New Delhi, Oct. 22 There is good news for weight watchers: If self-control doesn’t work, food prices are doing the trick. In the last one year, potato prices have gone up by over 104 per cent, sugar by 45 per cent, ...
COMMODITIES:
Inflation rate at 20-week high on costlier food items
Wholesale Price Index of all commodities at 242.2. New Delhi, Oct. 22 Headline inflation surged to its highest level in 20 weeks, with the annual Wholesale Price Index-based inflation rising 1.21 per cent during the week-ended October 10, the ...
AGRICULTURAL POLICY:
New Ordinance may hit sugar industry
To bring a uniform norm to determine levy price. Chennai, Oct. 22 The Centre has amended the Essential Commodities Act, 1955, through an Ordinance providing for fixing the levy price of sugar on a ‘fair and remunerative price’ to be ...
RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT:
The story of Pusa-1121
In early 1998, the then Director-General of the Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR), Dr R.S. Paroda, convened a meeting of top rice exporters at the Indian Agricultural Research Institute (IARI) in Pusa, New ...
SPICES & CONDIMENTS:
Pepper futures hit upper circuit
Kochi, Oct. 22 Pepper futures bounced back on bullish operations and nearly touched the second circuit level and closed substantially higher on Thursday’s trading in line with the trend in other commodities market such as jeera, ...
CLIMATE & WEATHER:
South-west monsoon exits
India Meteorological Department (IMD) has declared on Thursday that the southwest monsoon has withdrawn from the ...
CLIMATE & WEATHER:
Weather inputs for farmers on mobile phones
Thiruvananthapuram, Oct. 22 handygo Ltd, a leading wireless solution provider in mobile and value-added services, has tied up with India Meteorological Department (IMD) to provide farmers with meteorological inputs through Interactive ...
RUBBER:
Spot rubber prices unchanged
Kottayam, Oct. 22 Spot rubber prices finished almost unchanged on Thursday. The market opened better and improved further to hit Rs 111a kg for sheet rubber in the morning session but weakness in the domestic futures and the absence of ...
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