Agriculture
Foodpro meet from Dec 8
A RAW material sourcing forum to link large food companies and ancillary industries, and country level participation by Australia are some of the added attractions planned at Foodpro 2001 to be held between December 8 and 11 in Chennai by the Confederati on of Indian Industry (CII).

Rabi oilseeds area up; output set for recovery
PRODUCTION of rabi oilseeds is slated to stage a recovery of sorts this year, with the Delhi-based VMA Oilseeds Research and Development Institute (VORDI) estimating acreages to have increased somewhat over last years depressed levels.

Commodities
TN uniform floor rates likely to hit edible oil imports
THE Tamil Nadu Governments decision to bring edible oil under the uniform floor for sales tax is likely to affect the commoditys imports, particularly of RBD palmolein and sunflower oil, into Chennai port, traders and industry officials said on Thursday.

Tea
Fall in S. Indian tea production
SOUTH Indian tea production has fallen steeply during the first ten months of the current calendar year from 166 million kg (mkg) to 158 mkg.

Higher DEPB rates will improve tea exports
THE domestic tea industry appears to have veered round to the view that efforts to widen its market spread have assumed urgency as our markets have witnessed changes and its key rival, Sri Lanka, despite being predominantly a producer of orthodox tea, ha s succeeded in having a wider market spread.

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