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Make Bt cotton tech available to us, small seed firms tell AP
May 22, 2013 at 23:32 | Source: The Hindu BusinessLine
Hyderabad, May 22: Small and medium seed companies in Andhra Pradesh are up in arms. About 500 such companies feel that they are losing out the cottonseed business to the big players. Unlike in the traditional business in varieties and hybrids, the ...
India wants China to walk the talk on export pacts
May 22, 2013 at 23:32 | Source: The Hindu BusinessLine
New Delhi, May 22: Commerce Secretary S.R. Rao will lead a group of senior officials for a three-day visit to China from May 27 to work on the specifics of the recent memoranda of understanding signed for export of bovine meat, oilmeal, fishery and ...
Unapproved Bt cotton seeds sold in Vidarbha
May 22, 2013 at 09:07 | Source: DNA India
The illegal sale of the latest variant of genetically modified cotton seeds across Vidarbha before an expert committee s approval has caused alarm among farmers in the region and anti-GM activists across India. Mahyco Monsanto Biotech (MMB) India s ...
Essar Energy signs $1 billion loan deal with China
May 21, 2013 at 23:20 | Source: Business Today
Domestic and Chinese firms signed as many as 20 trade and trade finance pacts on Tuesday totaling $1.5 billion with Essar Energy topping the deal sheet with a $1-billion loan agreement with China Development Bank and PetroChina International.Of the ...
Our main focus has been transparency: U.K. Sinha
May 21, 2013 at 22:27 | Source: The Hindu BusinessLine
SEBI, the stock market regulator, has completed 25 years since it emerged as a concept in 1988. The Prime Minister and Finance Minister along with a galaxy of dignitaries are participating in its silver jubilee function later this week. It was time ...
China open to free trade talks with India: Li Keqiang
May 21, 2013 at 22:08 | Source: DomainB
Chinese premier Li Keqiang today said his country is willing to open talks for a free trade agreement with India even as he offered Indian goods increased access to his country's market, so as to narrow bilateral trade gap. Keqiang also said his gov...
Groundnut oil prices may slip further
May 21, 2013 at 21:07 | Source: The Hindu BusinessLine
Rajkot, May 21: Prices of groundnut oil are likely to decline this week on account of anticipated rise in arrivals and higher prices besides an almost nil demand from brands. A Rajkot-based miller said, “At present demand from brands is almost...
Exporters log out of cotton market
May 20, 2013 at 22:37 | Source: The Hindu BusinessLine
Rajkot, May 20: Cotton prices remained unchanged on the back of domestic buying support. According to traders, exporters were out of the market and only south Indian mills were active in the market. Gujarat Sankar-6 cotton was traded at Rs 37,200-37...
ACE re-launches futures trading in guar seed, guar gum
May 20, 2013 at 18:37 | Source: The Hindu BusinessLine
Mumbai, May 20: Ace Derivatives and Commodity Exchange Ltd (ACE), a Kotak Mahindra Group anchored commodity exchange, announced commencement of futures trading in guar seed and guar gum effective from Monday.Last week, Commodity exchanges Multi-Comm...
Limited buying keep cotton steady
May 18, 2013 at 00:17 | Source: The Hindu BusinessLine
Rajkot, May 17: Limited trade along with restricted selling hold the cotton price steady on Friday. Traders said that market may remain dull as there was no signal for recovery in demand. Gujarat Sankar-6 cotton traded at Rs 37,300-37,600 a candy of...
Water scarcity begins to take toll on kharif sowing
May 18, 2013 at 00:17 | Source: The Hindu BusinessLine
New Delhi, May 17: Planting of key kharif crops such as rice, sugarcane and cotton has begun on a sluggish note this year, with total acreage standing at 58 lakh hectares, lower than the corresponding last year’s 62.9 lakh ha. Farmers have pla...
Stockists turn bullish on soft oils
May 18, 2013 at 00:17 | Source: The Hindu BusinessLine
Mumbai, May 17: Palmolein extended gain despite slack demand, while soyabean refined oil ruled unchanged despite higher volume. Stockists took long position in soya oil for delivery upto July. Lower arrivals of mustard seed in producing centres push...
South-west monsoon makes debut over Andaman Sea
May 17, 2013 at 19:10 | Source: Economic Times
NEW DELHI: South-west monsoon today made a debut in the Andaman Sea and parts of Bay of Bengal, setting the stage for the four-month rainfall season crucial for India's agriculture-based economy. "Southwest monsoon has set in over some parts of south...
Return of Nawaz Sharif to help India-Pak economic integration: ASSOCHAM
May 17, 2013 at 13:47 | Source: Assocham
Return of Nawaz Sharif at the helm of affairs in Islamabad will help its economic integration with India which will also aid the Pakistani economy revive faster, industry chamber ASSOCHAM said today. The ASSOCHAM which has taken several initiatives ...
House again votes to repeal Obama health law
May 17, 2013 at 04:27 | Source: Market Watch
WASHINGTON (MarketWatch) — The Republican-led House of Representatives voted Thursday to throw out President Barack Obama’s health-care law in its entirety, returning to a favorite target as lawmakers eye midterm elections next year. The bill re...
How a Texas Paper Brought Down Billie Sol Estes
May 17, 2013 at 02:00 | Source: Bloomberg
Billie Sol Estes, the Texan con man whose exploits rattled the administrations of Presidents John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson, died in his sleep May 14. From a penniless background, Estes built up a $40 million West Texas empire of cotton, grain...
India under pressure at WTO to phase out textile export sops
May 17, 2013 at 00:32 | Source: The Hindu BusinessLine
New Delhi, May 16: Pressure is mounting on India at the World Trade Organisation (WTO) to pare subsidies and incentives given to its textiles sector. The European Union and Japan have joined hands with the US and Turkey to demand that India stop giv...
Suryalakshmi Cotton profit up 13% in Q3; to pay 20% dividend
May 17, 2013 at 00:32 | Source: The Hindu BusinessLine
Coimbatore, May 16: Suryalakshmi Cotton Mills Ltd has posted a net profit of Rs 6.15 crore, up 12.91 per cent for the third quarter ended March 31, 2013, against Rs 5.45 core for the corresponding quarter last year. The company’s net sales at ...
Suryalakshmi Cotton net up 13% in Q4
May 16, 2013 at 19:12 | Source: The Hindu BusinessLine
Coimbatore, May 16: Despite a 9.6 per cent drop in its net sales, Suryalakshmi Cotton Mills reported a 13 per cent jump in its bottomline (net profit) during the fourth quarter of the just-ended fiscal.“Our sales dipped during the last quarter...
Sabyasachi wanted 'purist ethnic look' for Vidya
May 16, 2013 at 18:26 | Source: FirstPost
New Delhi: Designer Sabyassachi Mukherjee, the man behind styling Vidya Balan's look at the 66th Cannes International Film Festival, says that as India is known as a bling country" he used a "little embellishment" to bring freshness.Vi...
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