The Hindu Business Line : Saturday, November 02, 2002

Fresh bid to find new tuna resources
AFTER suffering initial setbacks, India's first full-fledged demonstrative tuna pilot project, which was launched off Visakhapatnam coast in August with the principal intention of assessing the scope and potential for tuna fishing, has launched a ... More

RUBBER

Rubber prices decline further
RUBBER prices declined further on Friday following improvement in arrivals with RSS-4 settling down at Rs 36a kg. Inflow to the market picked up as tapping resumed in plantations as rains have receded. While the market faces no shortage of ... More

WATER MANAGEMENT

`Ensure sufficient storage at Mettur'
FOLLOWING the Supreme Court's order directing Karnataka to release Cauvery water to Tamil Nadu, the State Government will have to ensure sufficient water storage at Mettur, so that the water could be released later (after the monsoon), when the ... More

FOODGRAINS

Golden rice scientists working on new lines
DR Peter Beyer, who along with Professor Ingo Potrykus of Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich, developed the golden rice, has said work is on to develop several new lines enriched with micronutrients. Dr Beyer told Business Line ... More

`Golden rice can tackle malnutrition'
POLITICAL will, funding and information flow will dictate the success or otherwise of development of `golden rice' the nutrient enriched rice, that can tackle malnutrition among the poor, according to Dr Peter Beyer, Professor, University of ... More

TRENDS

Poor rains put Godavari rabi crop in jeopardy
FOR the first time in recent times, the second crop (rabi) is threatened in the Godavari delta this year due to poor rainfall in the upper reaches of the river in Madhya Pradesh and Maharashtra. Irrigation officials have made it clear that ... More

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