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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 planters
THE 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

Tobacco prices on downswing
TOBACCO prices on auction floors in Andhra Pradesh are on the downtrend again, lending urgency to the demand for market intervention by the Tobacco Board to hold the price line. Till now, 22 million kg of the crop has been sold on the 21 ... More


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