Agriculture
MSP fails to arrest fall in copra prices
THE market intervention exercise by fixing minimum support price (MSP) for copra has not yielded any positive results as the prices continue to remain far below the MSP.
IGC sees decline in wheat output
WITH a 13-million tonne (m.t.) decline forecast in production and a 10-m.t. increase forecast in consumption for both wheat and coarse grains together during 2000-01, the ending stocks are set for a drawdown, even as the world trade is expected to remain
largely unchanged from the previous year.
Plea to stop palm oil sales
KOCHI: Farmers of the Malabar region in Kerala, at a conference held in Thalassery on Thursday, have asked the Government agencies and the traders to stop selling palm oil in the State before November 15.
Aquaculture
Workshop on bio-tech tools in shrimp management
A UNESCO/FAO international workshop on `Bio-technological tools in pathogen detection and fish/shrimp health management' is to be conducted at the UNESCO Centre of the Department of Microbiology at the Fisheries College in Mangalore from October 30.
Commodities
Karnataka share in cashewnut exports declines to 5 pc
KARNATAKA'S share in national cashewnut exports has remained stagnant at Rs 125 crore for the past five years and has dropped from an `all-time high' of 9.5 per cent to five per cent, according to a member of the Cashew Export Promotion Council of India,
Mr Walter D'Souza.
Food & Dairy Products
Aid for State co-ops to set up new business entities -- NDDB to set up auction market in Bangalore
THE National Dairy Development Board (NDDB) feels it is time for the various State co-operative federations to become independent business entities. The apex body has fired its first salvo by identifying Guntur and Visakhapatnam in Andhra Pradesh as cand
idates to become the role models in this respect.
Call for traditional dairy items
THE Indian dairy industry will have to shift its future focus to traditional milk products in order to strengthen its viability and increase the organised sector's share in total milk processing, according to Mr P.R. Gupta, an industry consultant and Edi
tor & Publisher of Dairy India Yearbook.
Horticulture
Medicinal Plants Board to be formed soon
THE proposed Medicinal Plants Board to oversee the development, research, conservation and marketing of herbal resources will soon be constituted as a departmental body on the lines of the National Aids Control Organisation (NACO), under the Health Minis
try.
Plantations
Fair demand at Kochi tea sale
THERE was only a fair general demand for almost all varieties at the Kochi tea auction. Of the quantity of 9,59,000 kg on offer in the dust category, medium CTCs were lower by Rs 3-7.
