The Hindu Business Line : Friday, December 05, 2003

Premium basmati to cost less in Europe
IT'S strange, but true. Consumers in London or Paris may soon find themselves paying a lower price for premium quality `traditional' Indian basmati rice, compared to Pusa and other `less-pure' hybrid basmati varieties. To draw an analogy, it is ... More

CULTIVATION

Doubts over AP micro irrigation scheme
HYDERABAD: The Andhra Pradesh Micro Irrigation Dealers Association has expressed apprehensions over the feasibility of implementation of the State Government's Rs 1,150-crore micro irrigation scheme envisaged to cover 2.5 lakh hectares of ... More

AQUACULTURE

Biogenus develops `cure' for shrimp virus
BIOGENUS India Ltd, a 100 per cent subsidiary of the US-based Biogenus Inc, has claimed that it has successfully demonstrated, in three successive trials in Nellore district of Andhra Pradesh, the cure for the White Spot Syndrome virus, which has ... More

HORTICULTURE/FRUITS & VEGETABLES

Fruits of winter
Daily wage labourers take stock of orange fruits at the Gaddiannaram Fruit Market in Hyderabad on Thursday. Lorries bring in the fruits from neighbouring Maharastra ... More

RUBBER

Mixed trend in rubber
RUBBER prices showed a mixed trend on Thursday. Sheet rubber RSS 4 remained steady at Rs 52, while ungraded rubber improved by 75 paise to Rs 48 on moderate buying from the north Indian sector. Latex 60 per cent improved by 50 paise to Rs ... More

PRECIOUS METALS

Global demand for gold seen up 5 pc
TOTAL global demand for gold in the third quarter (July - September) this year is estimated to have risen by over 5 per cent year-on-year as per the latest quarterly report by Gold Fields Mineral Services. Jewellery fabrication rose by 5 per ... More

AGRICULTURAL INSTITUTIONS

`Nabard needs teeth for better rural banking'
MS Ranjana Kumar, the banker credited with turning around Indian Bank, met newspersons in Mumbai on Wednesday, some 10 days after taking charge as Chairperson of the National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development. Settling down in her new ... More

New director for Crida
DR Y.S. Ramakrishna assumed charge on Thursday as the Director of the Central Research Institute for Dryland Agriculture (CRIDA). The institute is a constituent research body under the Indian Council of Agricultural Research. He has been ... More

SPICES & CONDIMENTS

Cardamom steady on buying support
CARDAMOM prices ruled steady during the last week and up to December 3 in auctions held in major centres in Kerala and Tamil Nadu on buying support, despite heavy arrivals. As the prices were at moderate levels both the exporters and upcountry ... More

Garlic up on short supply
GARLIC merchants anticipate a supply gap during the coming season, commencing from January. The commodity, pooled from the Nilgiris and Sathyamangalam areas, is traded at the Mettupalayam garlic mandi every Sunday. The past President of the ... More

TRENDS

Agri recovery drags Kerala out of economic slump
THE recent uptrend in prices of three major crops — coconut, rubber and paddy that occupy 57 per cent of the State's total cropped area — could have reversed an all-pervasive drop in commodity prices since the latter half of the 90s, ... More

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