Financial Daily from THE HINDU group of publications
Thursday, August 08, 2002
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AGRI-BIZ & COMMODITIES HORTICULTURE/FRUITS & VEGETABLES 
Vegetable prices rise as monsoon plays truantWITH the southwest monsoon playing truant, arrival of vegetables, both grown in the hills and plains, in the main Mettupalayam vegetable market in Coimbatore district of Tamil Nadu has started dwindling, leading to price spiral in the last one ... More PLANTATIONS Plantation sector opposes plan to hike power tariff THE Association of Planters of Kerala (APK) has expressed concern over the State Government's move to increase power tariffs. In a representation to the Government, the association has pointed out that the tea, coffee and rubber plantations in ... More RUBBER Rubber market picks up KOTTAYAM: Rubber prices improved a little as major grades started moving up due to rains in rubber growing centres lasting for a couple of days. The increase formed only a part of the temporary phase as the prices spurted only very ... More COTTON Cotton offtake may rise despite low output WORLD cotton area is estimated at 31.9 million hectares in 2002-03, down 5 per cent from the previous season. The world average yield is expected to decline from a record 640 kilograms per hectare in 2001-02 to 601 kg/ha in 2002-03. ... More CASHEW `High density cashew planting profitable' HIGH density planting of cashew offers scope for increasing farmers' income owing to higher yield levels compared to the present method of wide space planting. A field experiment conducted during the past three years to assess the optimum crop ... More COFFEE Bankers' meeting to consider more sops for coffee growers THE core group of bankers with maximum exposure to coffee sector loans under the `Relief package to coffee growers' scheme being administered by RBI would meet in Bangalore on Friday to evolve a response to the growers' demand for more sops. ... More AGRICULTURAL POLICY TN to promote organic farming THE Tamil Nadu Government plans to promote organic cultivation of a range of horticulture and plantation crops to augment farmers' income. The Chief Minister, Ms Jayalalithaa, said the Government would promote production of organically ... More Comments & Letters to the Editor to: bleditor@thehindu.co.in Subscribe to: Business Line |
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