Agriculture
Govt going thru mill on wheat MSP
THE Centre should be happy and beholden to Mr Om Praksh Chautala, the ebullient Haryana Chief Minister for his assurance to wheat growers in Haryana that the State Government would provide bonus to farmers as a compensation in the coming wheat procuremen
t season in April in case the Centre fails to hike the minimum support price (MSP).
Cotton output seen at 150 lakh bales -- CAB meet to assess crop situation tomorrow
COTTON production in the country during the current season (October 2000-September 2001) is likely to be around 150 lakh bales (of 170 kg each) and its availability would be more than the projected demand, industry sources said on Thursday.
Commodities
ITC begins pulses export
ITC International Business Division (ITC-IBD) has added one more commodity to its export basket this year by undertaking pulses shipment. The company is currently sourcing pulses from Madhya Pradesh, where it has an extensive soyabean supply chain.
Corporate
Allanasons bags APEDA Golden Trophy
ALLANASONS Ltd of Mumbai has bagged the APEDA Golden Trophy for export promotion and product-cum-market development for 1999-2000. The company recorded an export turnover of about Rs 800 crore last year, of which nearly half was constituted by frozen and
processed buffalo meat products.
Food & Dairy Products
Fall in January soyameal exports
MUMBAI: A steep fall in export of soyabean extraction was witnessed in January. This decline, over and above the continued poor export performance of other meals, is likely to lead to further depression in solvent extraction industry's exports during the
current fiscal.
Plantations
Call to take up organic cashew cultivation
THANAL, a Thiruvananthapuram-based public interest research organisation, on Thursday appealed to the World Cashew Congress to raise organic cashew plantations in the country so that aerial spraying of the pesticide, endosulfan, could be avoided to prote
ct the environment as well as the humankind.
Tea
`Tea industry facing severe crisis'
THE tea industry is currently going through an unprecedented crisis with a large portion of the crop being sold well below the cost of production during the last two years, the Indian Tea Association (ITA) Chairman, Mr R S Jhawar, has said.
