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Jacob P. Koshy and Padmaparna Ghosh 12:01 AM | February 10,2010
Announces moratorium for as long as it is needed to establish public trust, confidence; scientists disappointed
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Ajayan 11:53 PM | February 07,2010
Adverse climate conditions threaten to knock back natural rubber output in Kerala, threatening annual income of about Rs8,500 crore
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Reuters 03:09 PM | February 03,2010
Financial institutions have disbursed loans of Rs1.65 trillion in April-October 2009, up 43.5% compared to the same period a year ago
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Rajendra Jadhav / Reuters 06:30 PM | January 28,2010
E country was banking on Maharashtra for higher output as the weak monsoon hit the cane crop in the second biggest producer Uttar Pradesh state, where output is estimated to fall below 4 million tonnes in 2009/10
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Liz Mathew 11:58 PM | January 25,2010
In Arunachal Pradesh, the NCP has increased its vote share from 4.28% in 2004 to 19.23% in 2009 and it also won five seats in the 60-member assembly
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Sangeeta Singh 11:43 PM | January 21,2010
According to an estimate the total additional allocation would be 1.06 mt of rice and 2.54 mt of wheat
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Jacob P. Koshy 11:42 PM | January 21,2010
Bt cotton is the only genetically modified crop allowed for commercial cultivation
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Manish Ranjan, Utpal Bhaskar and Bhuma Shrivastava 12:18 AM | January 14,2010
RPL has appealed the high court’s order in the Supreme Court, claiming that the adverse order so late in the day was unnecessary as the land had been acquired at considerable cost and by scrupulously following required legal processes
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PTI 02:22 PM | January 11,2010
The meetings will be attended by various stakeholders including scientists, agriculture experts, farmers’ organisations, consumer groups and NGOs who have been opposing the genetically modified brinjal
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Jacob P. Koshy 01:15 AM | January 01,2010
Fourteen years after the first successful experiments in India, farmers may get to seed their fields with transgenic brinjal this year. But concerns over genetically modified seeds remain
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Rajendra Jadhav / Reuters 05:23 PM | December 30,2009
Imported sugar has piled up at ports, particularly in Kandla in Gujarat, because of a shortage of railway wagons and protests against raw sugar imports by farmers in the northern Uttar Pradesh state
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PTI 11:23 PM | December 29,2009
Flagging food inflation as a major concern, he said that agricultural growth rate should not fall below 4% for food security as 60% of the population are in rural areas
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PTI 02:45 PM | December 29,2009
“Agricultural growth rate should not fall below 4% in this financial year for food security as 60% of the population are in rural areas,” Rangarajan said
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Bloomberg and Reuters 10:34 PM | December 17,2009
Mills produced 1.7 million tonnes, down from 1.88mt a year ago, as drought hurt the cane crop and a price dispute delayed crushing
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Reuters 10:22 AM | December 11,2009
Farmers are also planting more flood-tolerant rice, giving them two harvests a year where they once had one, and diversifying from traditional crops to vegetables such as peas, spinach, tomatoes, onions and potatoes
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Reuters 09:30 PM | December 10,2009
India’s Eleventh Five Year Plan, which began in 2007, aims to double annual agricultural growth to 4%, and the target was the government’s top priority, the prime minister said
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Rajesh Kumar Singh / Reuters 04:55 PM | December 04,2009
Rising food prices potentially dangerous in near term; need investment in agricultural technology to boost output
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Jacob P. Koshy and Liz Mathew 10:28 PM | December 03,2009
According to estimates, India imports 2-3 mt of pulses annually, nearly one-fifth of 14.66 mt it produces every year
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Reuters 12:10 PM | December 01,2009
Finance minister Pranab Mukherjee said the government is keeping a close watch on futures trading in commodities
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Ratnajyoti Dutta and Alka Pande / Reuters 03:07 PM | November 25,2009
Millers in Uttar Pradesh have agreed to pay Rs190-195 rupees per 100kg for cane, 5.6% above their previous offer and 15% more than what the government mandated
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