Agriculture
Wheat trade caught in unprecedented crisis
THE country's wheat trade is caught in an unprecedented situation today. Benchmark wheat dara is now quoting at Rs 615-618 per quintal in Delhi, compared to Rs 693-695 per quintal during this time last year.

Food & Dairy Products
NDDB `successful' in breeding milch animals
THE National Dairy Development Board (NDDB) has claimed `exceptional results' from its efforts at breeding top-class milch animals in the Animal Breeding Centre (ABC) at Salon in Rae Bareilly, Uttar Pradesh. Some outstanding Holstein Fresian cows have be en born and reared at ABC, owned by an NDDB-promoted trust, the Animal Breeding Research Organisation.

Rubber
Rubber research institute develops 5 hybrid clones
THE Rubber Research Institute of India (RRII) has developed five hybrid clones which outyield RRII 105, the most popular high-yielding clone in the plantation sector.

Sugar
ISMA denies rift over sugar Act revival
THE India Sugar Mills Association (ISMA) has denied any split in its ranks on the issue of restoration of the Sugar Export Promotion Act, 1958, which would pave the way for canalisation of all sugar exports through the Indian Sugar and General Industry E xport Import Corporation Ltd (ISGIEIC).

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