The Hindu Business Line : Tuesday, April 22, 2003

Canara Bank farm apprisals
BANGALORE: The agricultural consultancy services of Canara Bank have appraised 51 projects for Rs 100 crore in the last financial year. A Canbank release said here that the projects included floriculture, commercial horticulture, food ... More

AQUACULTURE

Fisherfolk demand nodal Ministry
THE Kerala Fish Workers Sangh (KFWS) has urged the Centre to set up an independent department for the welfare and development of fish workers throughout the country. The sixth State conference of the KFWS at Karunagapally near Kollam has ... More

HORTICULTURE/FRUITS & VEGETABLES

Truckers' stir, Gulf war hit mango trade
Bangalore is a nerve centre for the State's mango trading activity with growers supplying the fruit from Ramanagara and Channapatna. More

RUBBER

Plea to resolve rubber crisis
DURING the 2002-03 fiscal, 5.6 lakh tonnes of rubber were exported compared to 6,995 tonnes in 2001-02, according to Mr Anil Sampat, President, All-India Rubber Industry Association. He said in a release that the Government, by not collecting a ... More

Rubber market remains lacklustre
RUBBER market continues to suffer from low volumes and thin trading. The anticipated boost in trading did not take place as the truckers' strike prolongs. Sheet rubber RSS 4 improved to Rs 51.50 a kg on Monday against Rs 51 on Saturday. The ... More

TEA

Tea prices tumble at Coonoor sales
THE price of almost every grade of the tea offered for sale at the auctions here this weekend tumbled. "Once again, the attendance in the auction room was poor. The inter-state buyers appear to be purchasing teas from North India auction ... More

Tea turns bitter on truckers' strike
THE brew cannot be more bitter than at present. This time, the panic is not from within the estates, but due to the truckers' strike. Tea estates are unable to carry on the operations. If leaves are plucked, there is no fuel for ... More

OILSEEDS & EDIBLE OIL

Amul-Mother Dairy spat — Will Dhara be next bone of contention?
IT is no more a secret now that an ordinary `family quarrel' within the co-operative fold between the National Dairy Development Board (NDDB) and the Gujarat Cooperative Milk Marketing Federation (GCMMF or Amul) has degenerated into a full-blown ... More

HUMAN RESOURCES

Why is farm employment generation falling?
Both the latest Census and the NSS editions suggest that the rate of employment generation in agriculture has slowed down dramatically. In this edition of Macroscan, C. P. Chandrasekhar and Jayati Ghosh examine the State-level evidence for one possible explanation of this trend. More

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