India's cotton sector is pitting its stakes on a bumper production in 2007-08.
Centre for Sustainable Agriculture has leveled serious charges against Genetic Engineering Approval Committee for allowing large-scale field trials of Bt Brinjal.
According to sources close to the development, the government is shortlisting the states where the new IITs and IIMs will be set up. The states will be selected on the basis of their economic and social status.
With prices of pulses playing a big role in the rising inflation rates in India, the government may allocate more funds for research in pulses development.
Commodities prices will witness a major upheaval in the coming couple of years with demand for food going up.
Now, Bihar wants a white revolution in the state. So, the state has approached National Dairy Development Board to seek assistance.
After the Bt Cotton boom in Gujarat, it is the turn of organic cotton now. Keeping pace with the global trends, certain areas in Gujarat are going for organic cotton.
In a major step, SBI Capital Markets, India's leading investment banker, has decided to enter commodity broking and expand aggressively its online equity trading to take on competition from ICICI in the sector.
India's apex commodities regulator - the Forward Markets Commission - is a hub of activity these days. The Bill amending the Forward Contracts Regulation Act is pending before the Parliament.
An Ahmedabad school has joined hands with some corporate houses and institutions to make Ahmedabad the country's first child-friendly city.
The reason is that the students from metros and bigger cities are turning to IT. The institute will also launch virtual classrooms for its foundation level students by November this year.
India's public sector steel companies will spend a whopping Rs 230 crore (Rs 2.30 billion) on corporate social responsibility to build 'Model Steel Villages' across the country during the current financial year.
Changing political situation in America and European countries have forced rich Islamic investors from the Gulf countries to look for investment opportunities in South East Asian countries, including India.
After rupee appreciation and global and domestic price mismatch, it is container shortage which is harming the coffee exports from India now.
The first Global Agro-Industries Forum will be organised in New Delhi from 8 to 11 April 2008.
Hyderabad will host the third 'international seminar on soya foods - 'farm to kitchen' on August 24-25.
The Multi-Commodity Exchange on Wednesday initiated changes in the composition and weightage of India's first real-time composite commodity futures index - MCX-Comdex.
India has a long history of commodity futures trading, dating back to more than 125 years. But futures trading in commodities was interrupted in the mid seventies as the government wanted to usher in an elusive socialistic pattern of society.
Expecting a better price realisation this year, farmers have gone for pulses in a big way this year.
Following good rains and high global edible oil prices, soybean acreage is likely to touch a record 84 lakh hectares in the current kharif season.
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