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Friday, May 17, 2002
Agri Prices (May 16)
Sugar S-301385 (1390)
Palm Oil (10 kg)310.50 (311)
Groundnut oil ready400 (400)
Coconut oil ready3900 (3900)
Pepper garbled ready9000 (9200)

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RUBBER


Rubber makes further gains
RUBBER prices made further gains on Thursday in the absence of sellers. The presence of buyers eager to covering their requirements activated the price mechanism and it resulted in firming up of prices. Traders offered better rates to elicit ... More

  • Rubber export target at 30,000 t

    TEA


    Duncans to expand retail loose tea biz
    MR G.P Goenka's flagship, Duncans Industries Ltd, has decided to take its branded retail loose tea business to Gujarat, Maharashtra and Rajasthan after consolidating its position in West Bengal. A little over a month back, the company opened ... More

    BIO-TECH & GENETICS


    Frost & Sullivan to help AP showcase biotech potential
    Ernst &Young, engaged by the Government, has drawn up a comprehensive policy framework for biotechnology initiatives within the State and is closely associated with the implementation. More

    FOODGRAINS


    FAO sees lower cereal output
    THE first forecasts for cereal production in 2002 and utilisation in 2002-03 by Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) indicate that output will remain below the expected level of utilisation and stocks will have to be drawn down again in 2003 ... More

    AGRICULTURAL INSTITUTIONS


    Icrisat plans to launch social marketing
    THE International Crops Research Institute for Semi-Arid Tropics (Icrisat) is making a concerted effort to initiate social marketing strategies to attract funds from development investors, to tap private sector and non-traditional funding ... More

    COTTON


    Super Spinning's `backward' move for farm-to-garment link
    THE city-based Super Spinning Mills Ltd, the Rs 300 crore turnover textile company, claims to be the first textile enterprise in the South to achieve the `farm-to-garment' link to give total integration to its cotton textile manufacture. The ... More

    JUTE


    Calcutta HC alters stay on jute packaging order
    THE Calcutta High Court has modified its order staying the implementation of the Government's notification to reduce usage of jute packaging for sugar to 90 per cent from 100 per cent. Mr Justice P.C. Ghose, in his order, said the modification ... More

    COFFEE


  • Karnataka: New coffee joint

    POULTRY


    Egg washing unit to come up near Hyderabad
    AGRO Corpex India Ltd, a poultry farmers body, is establishing an eggs washing, grading, packing and cold storage unit at a cost of Rs 5.16 crore at Saroornagar on the city outskirts . The project is to be executed in two phases. The first ... More

    WTO


    Plea to remove farm sector from WTO purview
    In a declaration adopted at the Kathmand conference, the representatives criticised the existing pattern of world agriculture development and food production, the effect of which, they claimed, was damaging the lives of the people of Asia. More
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    Russia fails to make purchases despite tea MoU with India


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