![]() Financial Daily from THE HINDU group of publications Wednesday, April 16, 2003 |
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AGRI-BIZ & COMMODITIES FARM CREDIT More credit for farm sector urged THE Union Minister for Agriculture, Mr Ajit Singh, today called for increased credit support to the agriculture sector, while pepping up cooperative marketing institutions and restructuring the cooperative unions to help it cope with the changing ... More RICE AP varsity develops `wonder rice' IN an innovation that might prove to be a shot in the arm for the farming community in Andhra Pradesh, the Acharya NG Ranga Agricultural University (Angrau) will soon be coming up with a `wonder rice' variety that is expected to "out-yield" its ... More AQUACULTURE Epidemic puts shrimp farmers in a tizzy SHRIMP farmers are concerned as disease outbreaks continue to plague the farms along the East Coast from Tamil Nadu to Orissa. Shrimp seeds, which were stocked in farm during January and February, have been completely wiped out, while those ... More HORTICULTURE/FRUITS & VEGETABLES QRs on onion exports lifted; canalisation stays THE Government today lifted quantitative restrictions (QRs) on export of all varieties of onion, even while retaining `for the time being' the mechanism of canalisation of these exports through the Nafed and other agencies. The decision was ... More PLANTATIONS
Govt assures support to plantersTHE Union Minister of Commerce, Mr Arun Jaitley, has said that the Government is committed to finding lasting solutions to the problems being faced by the plantation sector. The Minister was on a visit to Kottayam to study the problems ... More OILSEEDS & EDIBLE OIL China to export 6 lakh tonnes groundnut CHINA's dominance in the global groundnut trade is expected to continue this year also with record exports of the commodity. Groundnut exports of China in 2002-03 will be six lakh tonnes, accounting for as much as 40 per cent of world trade ... More TOBACCO Ajit Singh pledges to take up tobacco farmers' cause THE Union Agriculture Minister, Mr Ajit Singh, has promised the tobacco farmers in Andhra Pradesh that he would take up their problems with the Union Commerce Ministry and other Ministries and strive to do justice to them.He was speaking at a ... More
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