Agriculture
`Micro silos best option for Indian granaries'
EMINENT agricultural scientist, Dr M. S. Swaminathan's, proposal for `decentralising' the grainhandling operations by setting up micro silos of 25-30 tonne capacity at the village-level has struck an instant chord with Punjab, one of the granaries of the country.

Alarm over unknown DNA in GM soya
GREENPEACE, the environmental group, raised an alarm on Wednesday by announcing that a new study revealed unknown DNA in Monsanto's Ready Roundup soyabean, while claiming the genetically engineered (GM) soyabeans in the market were not identical to those approved by the authorities.

Rice procurement may touch all-time high
THE Government is expecting rice procurement for the Central poll in the coming 2001-02 kharif marketing season (October-September) to touch an all-time high of 195 lakh tonnes (lt).

Surging soya oil imports may crush growers
SOYABEAN oil has started to flood the country in unprecedented quantities even as the Government is apparently unable to do anything even to slow the flow.

Commodities
Good scope for rubberised coir
DESPITE volume and freight-related constraints, a good scope is seen for rubberised coir industry both within and outside the country. Concerted efforts promoting its eco-friendly and bio-degradable advantages could create additional markets for the prod uct.

Sugar
Sugar mills against direct power sale to States
THE sugar industry wants the Union Government to authorise the Power Trading Corporation (PTC) to buy co-generated power from sugar mills and sell it to the power-deficit State Governments.

Tea
CTCs in demand Guwahati sale
CTC offerings at Guwahati attracted fair general demand at lower rates during the auction held last week.

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