Financial Daily from THE HINDU group of publications
Friday, February 21, 2003
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AGRI-BIZ & COMMODITIES WHEAT S. India wheat milling falls on stock shortage MILLING of wheat in South India has declined by an average 30 per cent in the last few months. The reason: a shortage of wheat to mills. ``Our biggest problem is transportation,'' said the President of the Karnataka Roller Flour Mills ... More HORTICULTURE/FRUITS & VEGETABLES 
Dressing up!A retail vendor in Chennai arranging lemons to attract customers to his outlet. With the onset of summer, the demand for lemons has shot up. But, the arrival of the fruit from Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh and interior Tamil Nadu has gone down ... More
UP to export potatoes to Gulf, Lanka PLANTATIONS CCEA nod for plantation price stabilisation fund THE Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs (CCEA) has approved a proposal to implement a price stabilisation fund scheme for plantation crops such as coffee, tea and rubber. The scheme would also cover tobacco. Growers having an operational ... More RUBBER Rubber prices stagnate RUBBER prices continued to stagnate with no changes reported for any grade on Thursday also. Producers started selling more quantities afraid of steady movement of prices for the last few days without any indication of an upswing. The supply ... More WATER ADB funding for Icrisat project HYDERABAD: Impressed by the success of the first phase, the Asian Development Bank (ADB) had come forward to fund $1.3 million to support the second phase of the watershed development project coordinated by the International Crops ... More COTTON Slowdown in cotton import worries US THE world's largest exporter of cotton, the US, which happens to be the principal supplier of the fibre to India is worried over the slow pace of imports into the country. Ironically, the slowdown has occurred during a season when domestic output ... More SPICES & CONDIMENTS 
Spices Board seeks hike in pepper customs dutyIN a bid to arrest the flow of pepper from other producing countries in to the domestic market, the Spices Board has urged the Union Government to raise the import duty on pepper to 100 per cent from the existing 70 per cent. This apart it has ... More DERIVATIVES MARKETS Futures trading allowed in 54 commodities THE Government has virtually thrown open the entire farm/commodities sector for futures trading, with the existing ban on such trading in respect of 54 commodities, including foodgrains, gold and silver, being lifted. The Cabinet Committee on ... More Comments & Letters to the Editor to: bleditor@thehindu.co.in Subscribe to: Business Line |
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Top Stories In Focus Run-up to Budget Kelkar Report Bottled water: How safe is it? Telecom Competition Oil PSUs: Disinvestment dilemma Housing Fin. rate war: Bonanza for consumers! NPAs in Banking In Depth Simple Economics Consumer Notes Tax Talk The Brahmananda collections Corporate Governance Gold: Still the winner? Cars: Always a beauty Books and Reviews Looking back Feb. 9-Feb. 15 Cargill seeks FIPB nod for trading in futures contracts Is domestic tea consumption falling? Transgenics for four crops developed in AP Decline in farm sector higher than CSO estimates As drought spreads, migration gains momentum in AP Sugar decontrol unlikely for now Foodgrains output to fall 29 mt Indian arabicas, robustas bowl over Japanese |
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