The Hindu Business Line : Thursday, February 07, 2008

FARM CREDIT
‘Farmers need debt relief more than input subsidy’
Guntur, Feb. 6 The Union Finance Minister, Mr P. Chidambaram, should go ahead with the proposed debt relief scheme in the coming Budget and should have no rethinking on the issue, according to Dr Y. Sivaji, the former member of the Rajya Sabha ... More

CLIMATE & WEATHER
Tropical moisture aims to target peninsula
Tropical moisture draining from the eastern seas is forecast to slosh around Sri Lanka and the adjoining southern Indian peninsula, blowing up as occasional rain events from the weekend. La Nina-fired waves from the western Pacific will ... More

CULTIVATION
D1-BP Fuel set to extract bio-diesel from jatropha
D1-BP Fuel Crops India, a joint venture between the UK-based D1 Oils Plc and British Petroleum, expects to extract first batches of bio-diesel this year from its jatropha plantations in the North-East.A refinery too, would come up there ... More

PULSES
Chana, soya futures gain
Mumbai, Feb. 6 Futures in agriculture commodities which were trading range-bound with a negative bias on NCDEX, turned the table in the second half to close on a positive note.Chana futures were close to the upper circuit, but closed ... More

AWARDS & HONOURS
Nabard award for farmers’ club
Mumbai, Feb. 6 Nabard will confer best performer awards on chief volunteers of farmers’ clubs and associated bank managers selected from all States. The award function to be held in New Delhi on February 8 will be presided over by ... More

AQUACULTURE
US dumping duty on shrimps to be reviewed
Kochi, Feb. 6 The US Department of Commerce has announced the third round of the annual administrative review on the anti-dumping duty on Indian shrimp imports. In a notification published on Monday, the Federal Registrar said that ... More

International seafood show from tomorrow
The biennial India International Seafood Show 2008, jointly organised by the Marine Products Export Development Authority (MPEDA), the Union Ministry of Commerce and Seafood Exporters Association of India (SEAI) is to kick off at Kochi from ... More

$50-m target set for ornamental fish exports
Kochi Feb. 6 With a view to integrating ornamental fish breeding and exports into the global market, the Marine Products Export Development Authority (MPEDA) in association with the Ornamental Fish International has organised the ... More

HORTICULTURE/FRUITS & VEGETABLES
Cold conditions may affect grapes production
Leafroll & Rugose virus detected in wine varieties More

RUBBER
Spot rubber rules steady
Kottayam, Feb. 6 Physical rubber prices turned steady on Wednesday. There were no sellers in the market though the international markets continued to finish in red on weak oil and gold futures. RSS 4 closed flat at a Rs 94 a kg both at ... More

TEA
Offerings at Coonoor tea sales increase
An analysis of the catalogues of the different brokers indicates that the volume being offered for Sale No: 6 of the auctions of the Coonoor Tea Trade Association (CTTA) here on Thursday and Friday is as much as 1.1 lakh kg more than the ... More

OILSEEDS & EDIBLE OIL
Kernel oil plant at Eroor
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PERFORMANCE
Maharashtra mills post 50 bps increase in sugar recoveries
Neutralises lower levels of sugarcane crushing this year More

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