The Hindu Business Line : Saturday, April 12, 2003

Govt to set up 30 seafood test labs to help exports
Indian marine product exporters, faced with greater rejection of their shipment particularly to the European Union (EU) where sanitary and phyto-sanitary standards keep constantly changing to their dismay, should now breathe easily, thanks to the ... More

Tuna fishing project left hanging
THE demonstration project to promote tuna fishing, undertaken jointly by the Marine Products Export Development Authority (MPEDA) and the Association of Indian Fishery Industry (AIFI), has suffered a setback and the two vessels upgraded, at a ... More

RUBBER

Rubco enters TN market
THE Kerala State Rubber Cooperative Ltd (Rubco) will launch its entire range of rubberised coir mattress in the Tamil Nadu market on April 14. Addressing a press conference here today, the Rubco Managing Director, Mr Jacob D. Mathew, said the ... More

Thin trade in rubber market
RUBBER prices remained more or less steady, excepting for RSS 4, which made a little gain on account of the activity of the covering group. Transactions continued to be thin. The covering group's activity made sellers to keep off from the ... More

TEA

HML strike goes for adjudication
FAILURE of conciliation efforts to end the strike in the Mooply Valley estate in Thrissur district of Harrisons Malayalam Ltd has led the company to refer the matter for adjudication. The workers in this estate have been on strike since ... More

PRECIOUS METALS

Gold seen rising later this year
WEAK global economic outlook and expectation of further stock market weakness, especially in the US, in conjunction with a still weak US dollar and low interest rate may provide a framework within which investors could return to gold to drive ... More

AGRICULTURAL INSTITUTIONS

Settlement scheme for farmers
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The Kerala Agro Industries Corporation is offering a one-time settlement scheme under which farmers who have availed themselves of the hire purchase facility to acquire pump sets can clear off their dues as on March 31 ... More

SILK

Silk production in Bengal on the rise
THERE has been a seven per cent increase in mulberry production in West Bengal in 2002-03 compared to the previous year. Sources said that production of mulberry was expected to be around 14.5 lakh kg in 2002-03 compared to 14.07 in 2001-02. ... More

AGRICULTURAL POLICY

Grain management policy needs sharper focus
``EXIM Policy allows paddy exports. The Centre is formulating a grain export policy. FCI's wheat procurement target for current season is 20 million tonnes''. These seemingly disparate reports seen over the last few days do have something in ... More

STANDARDS & BENCHMARKS

Call for more domestic bodies to certify organic farm products
THE total area under organic farming in the country is a meagre 45,000 hectares (ha) compared to 24 million ha under organic management in Germany, followed by Australia at 20.5 million ha, Argentina - 3.2 million ha, Italy - 1.2 million ha and ... More

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