The Hindu Business Line : Saturday, June 14, 2003

Karnataka Bank eyeing farm credit potential
THE Mangalore-based Karnataka Bank plans to broad base its farm credit portfolio in a big way. The bank is to undertake a nation-wide survey to identify potential agriculture sectors for financing and is to come out with an action plan to ... More

CULTIVATION

TN farm varsity develops Soil Health Card
IN its bid at evaluating the soil health condition, the Tamil Nadu Agricultural University (TNAU) has developed a Soil Health Card, which is expected to benefit the farming community. The card would act as a tool in helping the farmers monitor ... More

HORTICULTURE/FRUITS & VEGETABLES

Bengal thrust to `ripen' mangoes
West Bengal-based companies like Keventers Agro, which makes the drink — Frooti — had to source its mangoes from outside the State since they were unable to use mangoes produced here. More

RUBBER

Rubber market remains steady

COTTON

Unofficial Bt cotton blooms in Gujarat — State Govt expresses `inability' to control the menace
FOR the farming community of Gujarat, the adage — you reap what you sow — has all the makings of a disaster. If had its first publicised brush with transgenic cotton in late 2001, it is time to harvest the seeds it had sown perhaps ... More

GEAC approves trial of Bt cotton
THE Genetic Engineering Approval Committee (GEAC) on Friday allowed Rasi Seeds Ltd to carry out large-scale trial of RCH 2 Bt cotton in south and central parts of the country for further evaluation of the company's hybrid cotton seed. The company ... More

POULTRY

Venkateshwara Hatcheries to manufacture FMD vaccines
THE Rs 1,300-crore Venkateshwara Hatcheries group is all set to get into the business of manufacturing vaccines for the dreaded foot and mouth disease (FMD) which played havoc with economies around the world a couple of years ago. The company ... More

NECC supplies maize to check `artificial' shortage
URGING farmers not to resort to panic buying, the National Egg Coordination Committee (NECC) said on Friday it has distributed 3,000 tonnes of maize, during the last 3-4 days in Hyderabad and neighbouring districts to tide over the `shortages' in ... More

SPICES & CONDIMENTS

Geojit takes online pepper trade to growers
IN a unique move, Geojit has taken online pepper trading to thousands of pepper farmers in the remote hill district of Wayanad in Kerala, providing an instantaneous futures market to the farmers and peasants of this mountainous region. ... More

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