![]() Financial Daily from THE HINDU group of publications Saturday, June 29, 2002 |
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AGRI-BIZ & COMMODITIES HORTICULTURE/FRUITS & VEGETABLES Kambam valley chosen for greenhouse project The study team had chosen the site in the Kambam valley, on the banks of Vaigai, because of its optimum weather conditions and availability of water. More INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY AP: Commodity prices just a click away The services were launched by the State Marketing Department with the help of National Informatics Centre and Electronics Corporation of India Ltd. More RUBBER Rubber falls sharply on heavy arrivals THE rubber market witnessed heavy selling pressure on Friday with the prices falling sharply by as much as Rs 1,500 a tonne. Arrivals gathered momentum as more rubber reached the market following reports of further fall in prices in the ... More PRECIOUS METALS WGC targets to raise demand to 4,000 t THE World Gold Council (WGC) has set a target of increasing annual global gold jewellery demand to 4,000 tonnes in 2005 from the level of 3,000 tonnes in 2000. Despite the demand at 2,840 tonnes negatively impacted in 2001 by a downturn in ... More DAIRY & DAIRY PRODUCTS FOODGRAINS Grains output seen at 211.3 mt Record rice production; cotton, oilseeds, cereals recover THE Agriculture Ministry has assessed the country's total foodgrain output for 2001-02 at a record 211.32 million tonnes (mt) as per its `fourth' advance estimates released here on Friday. This is marginally higher than the earlier `third' ... More TOBACCO AP tobacco growers seek guaranteed floor price THE production committee of the Tobacco Board is meeting for the third time on Saturday in Hyderabad to fix the crop size for Andhra Pradesh for the coming season , as the earlier two meetings, one here and the other in Hyderabad, proved ... More SPICES & CONDIMENTS Vanilla cultivation picking up ENTHUSED by the growing demand for vanilla beans in the global market, corporates and farmers in Kerala are taking up cultivation of this crop with the support of Spices Board. The global demand for vanilla is estimated at 30,000 tonnes and the ... More
Spices export volume improves EVENTS Malaysia to host global pepper meet MUMBAI: The Jakarta-based International Pepper Community (IPC) has organised a series of meetings during September 23-27 at Kuching in the Sarawak region of Malaysia. The Peppertech meeting, a technical forum for IPC, will identify ... More TRENDS Comments & Letters to the Editor to: bleditor@thehindu.co.in Subscribe to: Business Line |
Top Stories In Depth Gender Justice Simple Economics Guide to derivatives Looking back Jun. 16-Jun. 22 Policy on FDI in tobacco soon How the US subsidises its farmers Wheat prices at 26-month high ISGEC sells 50,000 t sugar to Bangladesh Sugar prices dip to 6-year low ISMA, NFCSF seek to restore monthly quota system India to oust Vietnam for second place in global rice exports US Farm Act: Massive spending to boost agri-biz |
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