Agriculture
Good start to kharif sowing -- Maharashtra hopeful of improved crop
SOWING operations in Maharashtra have been completed to the extent of eight per cent, indicating a fairly good start to the kharif sowing season of 2001-2002.

Ban on wheat sales to Iraq ill-advised
AT a time when the policy makers in New Delhi should be straining every nerve to ensure that the wheat export programme of the country succeeds and that every buyer in the world is attempted to be serviced, the Centre's instructions to the Food Corporati on of India (FCI) to stop sale of wheat to Iraq is rather strange, if not bizarre.

IWC forecasts decline in global wool supply
THE International Wool Company has forecast that world wool supply might decline in 2001-02 due to further cuts to wool production in key producing countries and lower stocks available for sale.

Aquaculture
AP prawn prices crash on heavy rains, diseases
THE prawn farmers in the coastal districts of Andhra Pradesh, especially those in the two Godavari districts, are suffering great hardship as prices have crashed during the last fortnight and diseases have broken out in several parts due to unfavourable weather conditions caused by the depression in the Bay of Bengal.

Tea
CTCs steady at Kochi auction
A GOOD general demand resulted in the spurting of prices of almost all varieties of tea at the Kochi Tea auction.

Technology
Philippines set to switch over to coco diesel
THE use of environment-friendly coco diesel as transport fuel may soon be a reality in the Philippines.

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