The Hindu Business Line : Monday, September 19, 2005

Saving crops
A farmer spraying pesticides at a farm on the outskirts of Kolkata. Pesticides market is the 12th largest in the world with a value of $0.6 billion, which is 1.6 per cent of the global market pie. However, per hectare consumption of pesticides ... More

TEA

Tea industry looks for immediate solutions
TEA planters and traders are looking forward to at least two important announcements from the Centre when the policy makers meet them in Coonoor on Monday and Tuesday. Both Mr Kamal Nath (Commerce Minister) and Mr EVKS Elangovan (Minister of ... More

ICWAI studying tea output cost
TO explore the possibility of fixing a floor price for the tea green leaves supplied by the small growers in the Nilgiris, the Commerce Ministry is believed to be currently undertaking a cost study. "A team from the Institute of Cost and Works ... More

FOODS & FOOD PROCESSING

Tap processed foods market: Sahai
INSTEAD of using oilseeds for extracting edible oil, the industry should look at processing and value addition of the produce, Mr Subodh Kant Sahai, Union Minister of State for Food Processing Industries (Independent Charge), has ... More

COTTON

Bearish trend in NY cotton futures
NEW York cotton futures ended lower on Friday on speculative selling as a huge US cotton crop looms over the market. Higher carryover stocks and the current US harvest season are expected to keep prices under pressure. The size of the crop was ... More

OILSEEDS & EDIBLE OIL

Marginal decline in oilseeds export
EXPORTS of groundnuts, sesame seeds and niger seeds during the 2004-05 fiscal declined marginally to 3,49,186 tonnes, valued at Rs 1,226 crore, from 3,85,256 tonnes worth Rs 1,288 crore in 2003-04. The figure include groundnuts exports at ... More

SPICES & CONDIMENTS

Vanilla prices unlikely to pick up this year
IF the current market trend is any indication, the prices of vanilla are unlikely to pick up this year despite a projected fall in production in Madagascar. According to market sources, this year, vanilla output in Madagascar, which had an ... More

CO-OPERATIVES

Nafed posts Rs 11.49-cr net in 2004-05
NATIONAL Agricultural Cooperative Marketing Federation of India Ltd (NAFED) announced a net profit at Rs 11.49 crore for 2004-05, registering a 260 per cent growth over the net profit of Rs 3.19 crore in 2003-04. It also registered a turnover ... More

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