Agriculture
AP tobacco crisis claims another life
IN the tragic aftermath of the suicide of a tobacco farmer in Krishna district last week, his wife also took recourse to the extreme step on Tuesday.

AP sets up seed bank
FOR the first time in Andhra Pradesh a seed bank has been set up to meet any contingency seed requirement of the farmers in the State as well as other States in the country.

Govt going Swadeshi in agriculture?
THE Vajpayee regime has lately been facing severe flak, from the Opposition as well as its own Swadeshi caucus, on the decision to allow 100-per cent foreign direct investment in power, oil refining and e-commerce.

Rootwilt claims heavy toll of Kerala coconuts
THE loss due to rootwilt disease in coconut palms in Kerala amounts to 968 million nuts per annum with palms in about 4.1 lakh hectares in the eight southern districts affected.

Plantations
`Quality teas, sole survival plank for small tea growers' -- UPASI President, Mr. M.H. Ashraff
THE tea industry in South India, where there is a large concentration of small growers, has been passing through a difficult phase for quite some time. So much so, circumstances have compelled the Union Government to launch a subsidy scheme for small gro wers. The quality aspect has assumed importance, as never before. In an interview to Business Line here recently, Mr. M.H. Ashraff, President of the United Planters' Association of Southern India (he is the Executive Director of Tata Tea), answered a wid e range of questions.

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