The Hindu Business Line : Tuesday, May 27, 2003

Karnataka: Irrigation potential to go up
BANGALORE: The cumulative irrigation potential under major, medium and minor irrigation (surface water) is estimated to go up only marginally this year to 30.22 lakh hectares (ha) from 28.63 lakh ha last year. Additional potential of ... More

HORTICULTURE/FRUITS & VEGETABLES

3 more agencies designated for export of onions
CLOSE on the heels of removal of quantitative restrictions (QRs) on exports of all varieties of onion, the Director General of Foreign Trade (DGFT) has designated, with immediate effect, three more agencies as State Trading Enterprises (STEs) for ... More

Bid to promote tissue culture in Karnataka
BANGALORE: The biotechnology centre of the Department of Horticulture has set a target of producing one million plants using tissue culture this year. The effort is a sequel to the Department's focus on popularising the technology ... More

TEA

Tea industry looks to Iraq for succour
Sources in the tea plantations say export queries have more or less dried up. There has been a massive 40 per cent slump in exports during the January-March period leading to a situation where huge quantities of tea are floating on the domestic marke t. More

COFFEE

Coffee seen hit by pre-monsoon failure — Pepper crop output may also be affected
THE erratic or near-failure of pre-monsoon showers this year is expected to affect the output of coffee and other plantation commodities such as pepper. Coffee growers say the situation is worse this year compared to last year, when the ... More

SPICES & CONDIMENTS

Ginger on board Air India flight
INDIAN ginger has gone on board Air India, thanks to a promotion measure followed by the Spices Board. Sixty thousand steamer packets of ginger candies were distributed to the passengers on board Air India, according to the Board sources. The ... More

Cardamom sellers putting off auctions on cash crunch
AS the cardamom season comes to an end, auctioneers are reported to be postponing sales owing to liquidity problems barring one firm. Only MAS Enterprises had conducted the auction on May 23 in which 31 tonnes of cardamom were sold at a ... More

TRENDS

`Spending in agriculture low'
DESPITE accounting for nearly one fourth of the country's gross domestic product (GDP), the agriculture sector continues to be neglected, getting only 1.3 per cent of the GDP as investment. "Investment in agriculture as a percentage of GDP has ... More

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