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Yarn short-supply leaves weavers garment makers worried (21 March 12:00) |
| The domestic textile producers involved in weaving and garment manufacture have raised a hue and cry over yarn availability and rising prices. “Textile mills have stopped cotton yarn suppl... |
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MCX arm offers gold in demat form (21 March 12:00) |
| From paper gold (a receipt of physical gold) to e-gold, the avenue for investment in gold seems to be getting better with every passing |
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Spot rubber continues to rise (21 March 12:00) |
| Spot rubber prices showed a better trend on Saturday. The market continued its upward journey on covering purchases as domestic rubber futures finished firm on NMCE. Supply concerns haunted ... |
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Rice prices may soften on better harvests slowing demand (20 March 12:00) |
| Rice prices are likely to soften in view of improving global harvests and slowing demand, especially with significant imports by India, to overcome the production fall in the kharif season, ... |
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Shell Foundation – creating new supply chains in the market (20 March 12:00) |
| Intending to link the small and marginal cotton farmers in India directly with the international retail brands, Shell Foundation is looking to create an ethical agent who will act as a bridg... |
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Upsurge continues in pepper futures (20 March 12:00) |
| The pepper futures, after witnessing high volatility, ended above the previous closing on good buying support and bullish |
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Better model convergence on normal monsoon outlook (20 March 12:00) |
| The latest update from the International Research Institute (IRI) for Climate and Society at Columbia University has retained the outlook of maximum probability for a normal monsoon for Indi... |
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Price protection on the anvil (20 March 12:00) |
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Sheet rubber improves on supply concerns (20 March 12:00) |
| According to sources the market continued to suffer from supply concerns and sheet rubber improved to Rs 152.50 from Rs 152 a kg as traders preferred to remain bullish on the |
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Alphonso yield likely to be sharply lower this year (19 March 12:00) |
| Though the famed Alphonso mango from the Konkan belt of Maharashtra is already beginning to make an appearance in the urban marketplace, farmers in Ratnagiri and Sindhudurg districts estimat... |
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Centre fixes fertiliser subsidies (19 March 12:00) |
| Farmers may not have to suffer huge increases in prices of non-urea fertilisers following their decontrol with effect from April |
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Tea stocks set to gather steam (19 March 12:00) |
| Tea stocks have been an aberration this week even as the Sensex has gone past the 17,000-mark. From being one of the hottest stocks last year, tea companies don't seem to be in favour this |
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MCX-Bombay Bullion Association stand-off ends terminals activated (19 March 12:00) |
| The stand off between the Multi Commodity Exchange (MCX) and the Bombay Bullion Association (BBA) has been resolved in less than 24 hours, with MCX stating that the BBA members have adhered ... |
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Pepper futures up on good buying support (19 March 12:00) |
| The pepper futures on Thursday witnessed high volatility on frequent “sms buy and sell calls” and eventually closed above the previous close on bullish activities coupled with good buyin... |
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Buyers market (19 March 12:00) |
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Lower volumes at dust tea auction in Coonoor (19 March 12:00) |
| A volume of 3.84 lakh kg is being offered in the dust market of Sale No 11 of the auctions of Coonoor Tea Trade Association, scheduled for |
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Spot rubber improves further on short covering (19 March 12:00) |
| Spot rubber made further gains on Thursday. The market opened better and improved further on fresh buying and short covering. Sheet rubber improved to Rs 152 from Rs 151 a kg though there wa... |
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Heating anchored over Gujarat south-west Rajasthan (19 March 12:00) |
| Severe heat wave conditions continued to be anchored around Gujarat and southwest Rajasthan on Thursday as the heating extended to more parts towards the west of the country. Heat wave condi... |
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Soya can bridge the protein gap (18 March 12:00) |
| India has been in a large import market for pulses for nearly 30 years now and the import volumes are simply |
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Summer showers kindle plantation sector hopes (18 March 12:00) |
| Scattered summer showers, which lashed several parts of South-West India, have brought respite from the searing heat, and revived hopes of better harvests to the plantation |
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Rabi oilseeds production increases 23 (18 March 12:00) |
| Oilseeds production during rabi may have increased 2.3 per cent but the overall production for the oil year ending October is likely to be 9.2 per cent lower, according to estimates made by ... |
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Karnataka identifies fish sanctuaries to protect local species (18 March 12:00) |
| The Karnataka Biodiversity Board has identified 16 fish sanctuaries for preservation of the local fish species in those regions, according to Mr Anant Hegde Ashisar, Chairman of Western Ghat... |
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Inflation in rice edible oils fish is an urban trend Report (18 March 12:00) |
| A study of price rise across 78 towns and cities between April 2006 and June 2009 shows that the inflation in the case of rice is more of a large-town |
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Mercury may briefly rise over north-west India (18 March 12:00) |
| The core wheat belt in the northwest of the country may need worry about only a four-day stretch from Saturday for any abnormal rise in temperatures even as heat wave conditions have started... |
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Pepper hits second upper circuit on strong buying support (18 March 12:00) |
| The pepper futures market continued to remain volatile on Wednesday. Almost all the contracts eventually hit the second upper circuit level and closed much above the previous closing on stro... |
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Consumerfed Nafed in joint bid to check prices (18 March 12:00) |
| The National Agricultural Cooperative Marketing Federation (Nafed) of India and the Kerala State Cooperative Consumers' Federation (Consumerfed) have entered into an agreement for joint mark... |
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Lacklustre demand (18 March 12:00) |
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Milk powder butter oil imports liberalised (17 March 12:00) |
| Foreseeing shortages in milk supplies to cities ahead of the summer season, the Centre has permitted duty-free imports of up to 30,000 tonnes of milk powder and 15,000 tonnes of butter |
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Commodities continue to attract investor interest (17 March 12:00) |
| Investors view sovereign default as the greatest risk to global economic recovery while their main concern when investing in commodities is deterioration in commodity |
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Pepper futures up on buying support (17 March 12:00) |
| Pepper futures on Tuesday, after witnessing high volatility, shot up on good buying support and bullish activities such as frequent buy |
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Cashew prices continue to move up (17 March 12:00) |
| The cashew kernel prices continued their upward swing last week, especially for W 320, on improved demand. “Most of the limited business was with the US but there were some sales to Europe... |
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Rogue westerly in sets up weather over south east (17 March 12:00) |
| True to forecasts, the ‘rogue' western disturbance has reported in from across the border, cutting a land-based swathe of lower pressure from northeast India towards the south, topped up w... |
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Manish Poddar is IJMA chief (17 March 12:00) |
| The Indian Jute Mills Association has unanimously elected Mr Manish Poddar as its new Chairman. Mr Poddar succeeded Mr Sanjay Kajaria. The other nominated office-bearers of the association a... |
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Towards prosperity (17 March 12:00) |
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Rubber prices soar on dip in arrivals (17 March 12:00) |
| As the temperatures soar over major rubber growing belts in South India, arrivals of rubber in the base form of field latex have trickled |
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Sugar mills do without cash payments to growers (16 March 12:00) |
| In the case of grains, market transactions (even involving Government procurement agencies) are in cash. But this is not so in sugar, where payments to cane growers take place through |
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Why cash is king in grain market (16 March 12:00) |
| In about a month's time, public godowns will be flooded by the new wheat crop now standing in the fields. In Punjab and Haryana alone, Government agencies expect to procure some 18.5 million... |
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Saving wheat stocks from ruin (16 March 12:00) |
| India's wheat output in 2010-11 has been good — around 82 million tonnes (mt) against last year's 80 mt. The Empowered Group of Ministers (EGoM) is likely to deliberate on allowing wheat e... |
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Rogue trough to shield wheat from heat (16 March 12:00) |
| A ‘law-breaking' but weather-making trough is forecast to descend on east India and extend into east-central and north peninsular India over the next few |
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How milk payments are made (16 March 12:00) |
| The Gujarat Cooperative Milk Marketing Federation (GCMMF, better known as ‘Amul') procures an average of 100 lakh litres of milk every |
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Lower domestic prices slow sugar import deals ISO (16 March 12:00) |
| The International Sugar Organisation (ISO) feels that the lower domestic prices have slowed import deals since mid February. Quoting trade sources, it said this was because the domestic pric... |
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Pepper futures falls on liquidation (16 March 12:00) |
| The pepper futures on Monday fell on liquidation by bulls on the expectation that good quantity of validity expired valid pepper would come up for delivery at prices below the spot |
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Demand for gold steady as investors look for safe haven (15 March 12:00) |
| Even as the financial markets continue to gyrate, the broader macro-economic data releases signal of an expansion in economic activity. OECD composite leading indicators in January 2010 cont... |
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Budget Aiming towards inclusive growth in agriculture sector (15 March 12:00) |
| The performance of the agricultural sector has significant impact on the sustainable growth of the economy. Despite the declining share of agriculture in GDP, it remains critical as it provi... |
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A potential yet to be tapped (15 March 12:00) |
| King among the wide variety of nuts, the crunchy cashew is an important plantation crop grown mainly in the southern parts of the country. The cashew value chain generates income for growers... |
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Pepper futures fall on high volatility (15 March 12:00) |
| The high volatility in the pepper futures market without reasons is allegedly giving the impression that the market is moving against the market |
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China cancels US origin soyabean cargo (15 March 12:00) |
| Even as global oilseeds and vegetable oil market is feeling the pressures of record crops in the making and accumulation of sizeable oil inventory at consuming countries comes news of Chines... |
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Heat wave warning in extreme north-west (15 March 12:00) |
| India Meteorological Department (IMD) has warned of heat wave conditions to develop over parts of Rajasthan and Gujarat during the next two |
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Prices turn weak at Kochi tea auction (15 March 12:00) |
| Weak trends prevailed at the Kochi tea auction as prices of several tea varieties |
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Where dairy poultry hold promise (15 March 12:00) |
| Goa is endowed with natural resources including coastline, rainfall and sunshine. Agriculture is an important economic activity helping generate incomes and employment. The State has rich fo... |
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