Southwest Monsoon was vigorous/active over East Rajasthan and the Gujarat region during many days and over West Rajasthan, Konkan and Goa and Madhya Maharashtra on a few days of the week ending July 11.
Surging capital markets in India are turning investors away from the bullion market to attractive stocks. This has resulted in the fall of gold prices on lack of buying supporters.
Implementation of the model Agriculture Act in Gujarat is like setting the cat among pigeons as far as Agriculture Produce Marking Committees in the state are concerned.
Thailand, known for its coloured gemstones, is keen to make its presence felt in India, where the market is responding positively to gemstone-studded jewellery.
Spot exchanges to trade in commodities are set to be launched across the country in a few months' time. The man in the limelight most of the time these days is Anjani Sinha, managing director and chief executive officer of National Spot Exchange.
In a move to express the state's displeasure, Punjab Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal has sought a meeting with Prime Minister Manmohan Singh over the issue of importing wheat at a higher price of $317-$330 per tonne.
India's edible oil imports rose by 41 per cent to touch 5.47 lakh tonnes in June against 3.88 lakh tonnes a year-ago, according to figures released by the Solvent Extractors' Association of India.
The exotic brew from West Bengal is facing an onslaught from 'original' duplicates.
Futures trading is here to stay. That is the message emerging from the commodity exchanges in India. Futures trading in commodity exchanges reached a whopping Rs 8,97,816 crore (Rs 8,978.16 billion) till June-end in the current financial year.
Faced with a huge rise in cotton prices, the South India Small Spinners Association has urged the Centre to ban export of raw cotton.
Export of coffee across the globe has witnessed a big leap in the crop year that began in October.
The London Chamber of Commerce and Industry plans setting up of 250 centres of learning and resource centres in Gujarat.
Vidarbha, the land of farmers' suicides, may soon witness changes in cultivation methods.
India may be the largest consumer of gold in the world; but not only that the quantity of gold that the country produces is dismal, but it plays no influencing role in determining the pricing of the yellow metal.
Voices of concern over cumin seed and pepper delivery and quality standards were aired at a meeting of traders and hedgers called by the Forward Markets Commission.
If anyone asks who should be named the pioneer of online Futures trading exchanges in commodities, the first name that would prop up will be that of Kailash Gupta.
The neo classical economists will have great pleasure in knowing that the Indian farmer has now acted in accordance with the basic assumptions of their theory.
More than 85 percent of gold mined today will end up as jewelry tomorrow. Gold mining is not an essential industry like the harvesting of food or even paper production. It is certainly not sustainable, nor is it just.
Investors and traders in India have been making money on silver futures in the last two months.
Amendments to the Agriculture Produce Market Committees Act have opened floodgates for private companies and online commodity exchange in Gujarat.
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