The Hindu Business Line : Saturday, November 26, 2005

CICR Plant Clinic Centres
COIMBATORE: Central Institute for Cotton Research (CICR), Regional Station, Coimbatore has inaugurated two Plant Clinic Centres at Kanurpudur and Chinnakanur villages of Avinashi taluk. The CICR Project Coordinator (in-charge) and Head ... More

RICE

Germplasm Day
HYDERABAD: Dr M.V. Rao, former Vice-Chancellor of Acharya N.G. Ranga Agricultural University (ANGRAU), has sought the cooperation of the farming community in protecting germplasm of rice varieties. Addressing a meeting organised to mark ... More

COMMODITIES

Inflation up on costlier minerals, textiles
THE annual wholesale price index-based inflation rose 4.2 per cent on during the week ended November 12, marginally higher than the previous week's annual rise of 4.14 per cent. The rise in the year-on-year inflation rate was largely on account ... More

PLANTATIONS

`Campco must hold meetings at major centres'
MR VARANASHI SUBRAYA BHAT — who founded the Central Arecanut and Cocoa Marketing and Processing Cooperative (Campco) Ltd three decades ago to arrest the fall in the prices of arecanut then and to provide stability to the market — has ... More

RUBBER

Rubber shipment target raised
BUOYED by encouraging trends, the Rubber Board has scaled up its targets for natural rubber exports by 5,000 tonnes to 45,000 tonnes during the current fiscal year. "We have already touched 37,723 tonnes of exports. In the coming months, we ... More

Rubber traders threaten to halt exports — VAT claims yet to be refunded
RUBBER exporters under the aegis of the Cochin Rubber Merchants Association on Friday said they would stop exports unless the State Government refunded their value added tax (VAT) claims. According to Mr N. Radhakrishnan, President of the ... More

TEA

Geographical indicator regn for Assam, Nilgiris teas likely
AFTER succeeding in getting Darjeeling registered with the World Trade Organisation under the Geographical Indications (GI) stipulations, the Tea Board will be trying it for other regions too. For the next financial year, the Tea Board will ... More

Tea growers seek advisory panels for Indco factories
The factories are now under the control of paid Managing Directors who are handpicked by the Government. More

FOODGRAINS

Foodgrain merchants welcome Rly survey
THE Tamilnadu Foodgrains Merchants Association has welcomed the commissioning of the survey on Tuticorin-Chengalpattu double line project by the Southern Railway. In a statement here, the Association Secretary, Mr P. Subash Chandra Bose, said ... More

COTTON

Cotton quality: Work on for acceptable certifying process
STANDARDISATION of instrument testing of cotton would be key to defining quality parameters of the natural fibre and once this is achieved, the issues such as quality disputes could be lessened, according to officials from the International ... More

Cotton trade worried over reports of lower crop; rates increase
THE cotton trade and industry is perplexed that reports of a substantially lower crop than earlier expected have begun to do the rounds in the market. As a result, cotton prices have reversed the softening trend and begun to firm up. Since ... More

SPICES & CONDIMENTS

Cardamom prices rule steady
CARDAMOM prices continued to rule steady at lower levels on heavy arrivals at auctions held in Kerala and Tamil Nadu during the week. Exporters as well as buyers from North India were active, as the prices of all the varieties remained low. ... More

McCormick spices in India
MCCORMICK, a global brand leader in spices, has launched its range of sterilised products, processed at its joint venture unit with AVT at nearby Vazhakulam, in the Indian market. Apress release here said the high-quality variants available ... More