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.
Adani group is all set to launch fruits and vegetables supply in a big way.
Saddled with huge losses due to a glut in the industry, sugar mills are going all out for co-generation and distilleries now.
Want to make it big in rubber? Cambodia beckons you. The war-torn country has opened up its rubber belts for foreign direct investments.
Britannia Industries, the country's top biscuit maker, has taken the income tax department, Kolkata, to court after it received a show-cause notice asking it to explain the withdrawal of funds from the employees' pension fund in 2003.
At a time when instability in the US leveraged buyout (LBO) market is making world equities markets jittery, JSW Steel is planning a leveraged buyout of a North American steel company.
The rolling out of the raw jute futures contracts comes close on the heel of the successful launch of Kufri Jyoti potato futures contract from MCX.
India's oil and gas industry is estimated to be a US$ 110 billion and it is one of the largest contributors to the central and state exchequers.
Committee of secretaries is working on the formula and it is understood that EAC is also being asked to go through the formula.
FMC chairman B C Khatua said differential margins were being considered as the perceived risk of hedgers and speculators was different.
For the purpose the ministry will rope in the private sector companies to give a boost to Indian tea abroad.
Traders in Mumbai said palm oil futures in Malaysia, the benchmark for the commodity, has been icreasing thanks to rising demand from India, the world's second biggest buyer of vegetable oils.
Nearly two weeks after lifting the ban on rice imports from India, Russia has said that it wants to inspect Indian laboratories that test and certify the grain for safety and quality.
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