![]() Financial Daily from THE HINDU group of publications Friday, January 11, 2002 |
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AGRI-BIZ & COMMODITIES AQUACULTURE Plea for more sops to aquaculture VIJAYAWADA: The Andhra Pradesh Aqua Farmers' Welfare Association has sought the Union Finance Minister, Mr Yashwant Sinha, to treat aquaculture as a form of agriculture and extend all the benefits being given presently to the farm ... More INFRASTRUCTURE SEZ planned in Vizag to boost farm sector A SPECIAL economic zone (SEZ) will be set up at Visakhapatnam and incentives for exporters will be extended, the Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister, Mr N. Chandrababu Naidu, has said. The Chief Minister, who gave away the second annual awards for ... More RUBBER Sheet rubber prices slip KOTTAYAM: Sheet rubber and block rubber slid a tad following low demand from the manufacturing sector. Some of the producers who kept off the market recently reappeared to tide over their cash crunch dampening market sentiments. Latex ... More SUGAR Sugaronline.com changes hands KOLKOTA: THE world's most sought-after sugar portal, the UK-based sugaronline.com of Commodity Systems Ltd, which was up for liquidation, has changed hands. It has been acquired by Milecourt Ltd, a UK-based private venture capital company, ... More
Trade seeks duty sops on `Vitamin A'-fortified sugar TEA CTCs in demand at Guwahati sale CTC market opened to fair demand this week. All Assam CTC brokens and large fannings declined irregularly in value. Larger brokens were largely neglected and they faced withdrawals. Cheapest bolder brokens were absorbed at lower levels by Polish ... More COFFEE Coffee harvesting Harvesting of coffee is on at Pulapally in Kerala's Wayanad district. Many farmers have stopped harvesting as the prices have fallen drastically. |