The Hindu Business Line : Monday, April 15, 2002

Mixed trend at Kochi tea sale
A MIXED trend persisted for almost all varieties of tea at the Kochi tea auction. Though the leaf sale witnessed a good general demand, it was comparatively low for dust varieties. The dust category witnessed only a fair general demand and the ... More

PRECIOUS METALS

Gold's strong run continues
GOLD continued its strong run last week supported by mounting scale of conflict in West Asia and firm crude oil prices. Comments attributed to South Africa's AngloGold that it was aggressively unwinding its hedge books added to the sentiment. ... More

BIO-TECH & GENETICS

Broad Sheet on Bangalore Bio - 2002: Going the BT way
It is a measure of how much can happen in just one year. Bangalore's biotech event has dropped the `.com' from its name and the second edition is being called Bangalore Bio2002, scheduled to start in the city today. The dotcom bust was ... More

GM: Seeds of uncertainty
NEW technologies create extraordinary possibilities that people find disturbing. However, for every new technology, the ecological and environmental scare graph charts a predictable seven-year cycle, as was interestingly traced by The ... More

It's an open field
As India moves closer to the commercial exploitation of biotechnology in agriculture, farmers are looking forward to the realisation of the promises that biotech is said to hold, say farmers' representatives. Meanwhile, the industry is looking ... More

Towards good health
Worldwide, pharmaceuticals, along with agriculture, are major areas that are looking at biotechnology. Biodrugs or recombinant DNA therapeutics are considered safer and more specific than the conventional chemical drugs. The global ... More

Players all
Karnataka, Tamil Nadu, Andhra Pradesh, Maharashtra, Kerala, Pondicherry ... the number of States pursuing the biotech gold is growing. Each one has planned vast acres of dedicated parks. Bangalore's s Biotech Park and the Genome Valley in ... More

FOODGRAINS

FCI turns a messiah for all as clientele expands
WHICH is the country's largest, if not its only truly functional, mandi for foodgrains? A mandi where farmers sold over 40 million tonnes (mt) of wheat and rice, and buyers— ranging from State Governments and civil supply corporations to ... More

UK begins talks to protect basmati
FSA has also further improved the DNA method, which would serve to check whether the name `Basmati' is being used according to the guidance. More

Golden rice to reach consumers by 2006
`GOLDEN rice', the Vitamin A enriched rice, which has raised a big controversy in India, is all set to reach the poor man's food plate by early 2006. The complete field evaluation is expected to be completed by mid-2003, thereafter food ... More

Former CM's gesture to farmers

COTTON

Farmers plan rally against Bt cotton
THE Karnataka Rajya Raitha Sangha (KRRS), a farmers association in the State, is planning a mass rally on April 17 at Dharwad to protest against the Government's clearance for commercial cultivation of transgenic `Bt' cotton. The President of ... More

Price support likely for NY cotton
COTTON futures on the New York Cotton Exchange settled slightly lower Friday as participants mainly focused on the expiration of May options. Prices are expected to continue to trade range-bound in the short term until some market-moving ... More

OILSEEDS & EDIBLE OIL

Palm oil may consolidate
CRUDE palm oil futures on the Malaysia Derivatives Exchange, or MDEX, closed higher Friday following the issue of bullish crop data by the Malaysian Palm Oil Board. MPOB said on Friday that Malaysia's palm oil exports increased 33 per cent on ... More

CO-OPERATIVES

Reaping a rich harvest on foreign soil
The methodical practices followed by Tibet's refugees and their ability to link farm production and marketing through village-level cooperative chains has drawn the attention of a cotton ginner in Coimbatore, who has engaged these farmers in contract cotton farming. More

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