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Friday, January 18, 2002
Agri Prices (Jan. 17)
Sugar (S-30)1375 (1375)
Coconut oil ready3700 (3700)
Palm Oil (10 kg)295 (296)
Groundnut oil ready355 (354)
Pepper garbled6400 (6400)

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Nabard moots bank loans against godown receipts -- Guidelines awaiting Government nod
COMMERCIAL banks can start funding farmers against godown or warehouse receipts, if the proposal put forth by the National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development (Nabard) gets the nod from the Government. Introduction of warehouse receipts ... More

RUBBER


Rubber prices improve
KOTTAYAM: Rubber market improved slightly on Thursday despite low arrivals following expectations of immediate procurement by STC. RSS-4 was traded at Rs 27.50 as against Rs 26.50 on Wednesday. RSS-5 and Latex 60 per cent were traded at ... More

SUGAR


UP may surpass Maharashtra in sugar production
UTTAR Pradesh is set to overtake Maharashtra as the country's largest sugar producer, with the latter likely to experience two consecutive years of output decline. During the 2000-01 crushing season (October-September), factories in Maharashtra ... More

SILK


Karnataka chalks out sericulture plan
MANGALORE: In a bid to face the `stiff competition' from China and Taiwan in the sericulture sector, the Karnataka Government has chalked out a Rs 1,000-crore `five-year integrated sericulture development programme' under which it hopes ... More

COIR


Coir exports drop in value terms
EXPORTS of coir and coir products from the country increased in terms of quantity during the first nine months of the current fiscal. However, exports declined in terms of value by Rs 2.78 crore. During April-December 2001, the exports stood at ... More

COFFEE


Coffee growers to get interest subsidy
Alongside internal transport subsidy on coffee exports, re-scheduling of crop loans and measures to enhance domestic coffee intake have also been announced. More

COMMODITIES MARKETS


Indcoserve halts tea purchases
INDCOSERVE, which has been sourcing about 200 tonnes of tea per month from the auction centres for Tamil Nadu's `Ooty tea' project, has put on hold procurement from the second week of December. Indcoserve, according to market sources, has ... More
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