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Saturday, January 26, 2002
Agri Prices (Jan. 25)
Sugar (S-30)1370 (1355)
Coconut oil ready3650 (3650)
Palm Oil (10 kg)289 (289)
Groundnut oil ready367 (370)
Pepper garbled6400 (6400)

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HLL to expand wheat project
ENCOURAGED by the benefits accruing from its pilot farm project at Hoshangabad in Madhya Pradesh, Hindustan Lever Ltd (HLL) is planning to expand the model to other wheat-growing states. Having started in wheat with 250 acres of land at ... More

Tata Coffee to grow vanilla, arecanut
TATA Coffee Ltd is looking to diversify into vanilla and arecanut cultivation to buffer the company against plummeting international coffee prices. Till now, the company had been betting on pepper as an inter-crop on coffee plantations to ... More

FARM CREDIT


Banks eye food credit to boost CD ratio
PUBLIC sector banks are plugging hard for food credit this year in a bid to push up credit deposit (CD) ratio and boost the average yield on assets. Banking sources said it was not just the public sector banks that were seeking higher ... More

HORTICULTURE


Still short
Forest gooseberry on sale at Pulpally in Kerala's Wynad district. The product is extensively used for ayurvedic drug manufacture. However, it is in short supply. Tamil Nadu is a major supplier of gooseberry to the drug manufacturing industry in ... More

RUBBER


Further rise in rubber prices
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TEA


Tea exporters to get market growth assistance
TO give a boost to drooping tea exports, the Union Commerce Ministry has decided to extend market development assistance to orthodox and packet tea exporters during the last three months of the current financial year. This was announced by Mr ... More

FOODGRAINS


MSP system likely to stay
THE Centre's proposed direct income support scheme for farmers to replace the existing minimum support price (MSP)-based system of official foodgrain procurement appears to be a non-starter in the coming rabi marketing season, beginning April. ... More

COIR


Coir Board to set up info centre
THE Coir Board is setting up an IT-enabled Coir Trade Information Centre (CTIC) here to facilitate promotion of coir and coir products in the domestic and international markets. The board has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) in this ... More
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