Plantation News

East African state of Ethiopia said it will lease land to two Indian firms, Verdanta Harvest Pvh and Shapoorji Pallonji to grow tea and Pongamia Pinnata, a plant used for biofuel and industrial chemical production.

World’s leading rubber producer, Malaysia produced 108,892 tones of natural rubber in January this year, an increase of 12.3 per cent or 11,890 tones from the previous month.

Jem Stansfield, one of the hosts of science-themed TV show ‘Bang Goes the Theory’, has reached Manchester for the March 11-13 Big Bang Science Fair at Manchester Central. Stansfield said before his journey that he was planning to stop at several schools on the road from London to his destination.