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Where does India stand on agri commodities? |
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India is the largest producer and consumer of several agri commodities in the world. Check out a fact sheet on where India stands in cotton, castorseed, chilli, pepper, jeera, soybean and mentha oil. |
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Which is the most friendly oil for Indian hearts? |
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Which is the most heart-friendly cooking oil? A difficult question to answer since any comment could create a controversy. A white paper published by K S Oils Ltd claims mustard oil is the most friendly cooking oil for Indian hearts. |
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Commodity Trends: Ban dampens interest in futures |
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The extension of ban on futures trading in rubber, chana, potato and soyoil has dampened the enthusiasm in agri-commodity futures which were expecting a revival of the suspended items. |
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Futures ban on rubber, chana, soy oil extended |
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The Indian government seems to be not in a mood to withdraw the temporary ban it has imposed on futures trading in agri commodities like rubber, chana, soy oil and potato. |
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India's edible oil cos scouting for land abroad |
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A consortium of 14 top edible oil companies are planning to lease or buy land in Paraguay, Uruguay and Myanmar to grow oils seeds and lentils as farmland available shrinks in India. A special purpose vehicle with a corpus of Rs 2 bn has been created. |
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India ranks first in global coconut production |
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After being in the third spot for a long period, India has emerged as world’s largest coconut producer, producing 1584 crores nuts in 2006-07 said, Coconut Development Board. |
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What one should do in boom times? |
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Boom times signal the need for re-investment even as those who benefit from increased prices and demand enrich themselves by higher spending on consumer durables. The old grandmothers' wisdom that one must save for a rainy day still holds. |
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Marico to form clusters to help coconut farmers |
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Through the collection centre initiative, the company is already touching the lives of 50,000 farmers in Kerala and Tamil Nadu. |
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K S Oils launches customer-friendly website |
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India's leading integrated vegetable oil company and leader in packaged mustard oil, K S Oil Ltd, has launched a new website that is customer friendly. It also targets the main consumer of edible oil -- the house wife also address the health-conscious. |
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After US, Canada all set to boost biofuel sector |
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Canada has followed the footsteps of USA in promoting biofuels. In a landmark decision, Canada has announced that it will contribute $3 million in funding the Industrial Oil Seed Network (IOSN) under the Agricultural Bioproducts Innovation Program.
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Commodity Trends: Agri-futures awaiting revival |
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With inflation easing and record rice production expected, the markets are awaiting a possible revival of futures trading in four commodities suspended for since May. The launch of currency futures has lent dynamism to derivates sector in India. |
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FTA to curb India from hiking palm oil import duty |
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Malaysia and Indonesia favoured a lower tariff, as palm oil is their major export item and India is the world’s second largest importer by volume after China. |
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US soybean export to S-E Asia falls |
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The farmers’ strike in Argentina affected that country’s soymeal exports and diverted some of the business to the US. |
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Singapore: An Island of Commodities |
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Singapore does not produce any commodity. It even imports drinking water from Malaysia. But over the years, a large number of commodity traders have chosen the city as their epicentre of operations that it would not be a wonder if Singapore emerges as the most efficient commodities trading centre in the world. |
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Brand wagon to help Malaysia sell palm oil |
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Malaysia is desperately trying to market its palm oil as a different entity in the world market with the European Union and other nations looking at palm oil iwth suspicion. Government in recent years had urged the Industry to address sustainability issues. |
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Rice procurement rises to 269 lt in KMS 2007-08 |
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The increased rice procurement at 269 lakh tonnes during kharif marketing season 2007-8 till date, increased stock of wheat expected by April 2009 and additional release of sugar quota and other measures will dampen the impact of inflation. |
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Will govt revive the 4 banned commodity futures? |
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It is not yet clear whether Union Government would lift the ban on futures trading in four commodities imposed in May although the commodity players and the regulators expect such a decision. |
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Palm oil may only benefit from biofuels demand |
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The rising demand for biofuels could help sustain palm oil prices from falling. It is a pity that major plantation companies have enriched themselves from high CPO prices but have refused to invest in bio diesel or to invest in creating a market for biofuels. |
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Pak to import more CPO, prices to go up |
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In the recent past Pakistan stepped up its refining capacity to around 4,500 tonnes from 3,000 tonnes daily. This has resulted in increased demand for the crude palm oil in the market. |
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Kerala protests subsidy to imported edible oil |
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The kerala government on Thursday expressed its strong protest against Centre’s decision to provide subsidy for importing edible oil saying that the move would badly hit the coconut farmers in the state. |
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Crude palm oil prices fall worries importers |
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Palm oil importers are worried over decline in the prices of the commodity as they have asked for a re-adjustment in their overseas contract to prevent losses, according to Solvent Extractors Association. |
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