Since the discovery of large offshore oil and gas reserves in 2014, Senegal has set its hopes on fossil fuel export revenue to help fund its plans to become an emerging economy by 2035. Senegal is actively seeking investors to help develop its offshore oil and gas reserves – both …
Medicinal and aromatic plants are critical to Himachal Pradesh's rural economy. Twenty four of the 100 most important medicinal plant species traded in the country are found in the state. The state exports some 2,500 tonnes of medicinal plants and their parts. The legal annual trade in medicinal plants in …
Rising incomes and urbanization, an expanding domestic consumer base concerned about food quality and safety, and rapidly growing agricultural exports have been important drivers for the increased attention to food safety in India. But the development of effective food safety systems is hampered by a number of factors, including: restrictive …
The researchers explore how globalization, broadly conceived to include international human rights norms, humanitarianism, and alternative trade, might influence peaceful and food secure outlooks and outcomes.
jn-nurm gets a chair: The Union ministry of urban development has appointed Ramesh Ramanathan, founder of Janaagraha, a citizens' movement on participatory democracy, as the honorary national technical advisor and chairperson of Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission. The mission aims to ensure citizens' participation in the integrated development of …
Statistical report on spices - provides analysis of the spice trade, detailed statistics of major importers worldwide; includes additional information on world unit prices, product reviews, market shares of major suppliers and importing countries/areas; export data are also available for few selected counties with significant re-exports; gives product description of …
function graph() { var popurl="files/images/20060331/35_graph.jpg" winpops=window.open(popurl,"","width=250,height=250,scrollbars=yes") } More than 70 countries globally produce and export cotton. Of these, eight countries are responsible for almost 80 per cent of global output. The world’s cotton market is dominated by the us which is the second largest producer after China and the largest …
Can we ever do without imports? A few lakh bales of imports, even if they continue for a long time, should not be a major concern because the percentage of imports to total demand of raw cotton has been consistently low at around 2 per cent only. Will the import …
smoke threat: Public health in Meherpur district of Bangladesh is at high risk from heavy vehicular emissions due to the use of adulterated fuel. Cases of respiratory and cardiac diseases have increased in recent years. It is alleged that kerosene is used to adulterated petrol. Consumers complain that their vehicles …
the Food Corporation of India (fci) may soon trade its surplus wheat and rice in the domestic commodity exchanges through futures transactions, say fci sources. Even as Asia's largest food-procurement agency toys with the idea, the trader community, brokers and exchanges are apprehensive. Making sense of futures A futures contract …
Exim Bank's latest study titled 'Vanilla and its Potential in India" observed that with certain policy intervention by Government of India and with more and more private and public partnership, India can emerge as significant player in the global vanilla industry. With higest price realizations amongst spices and comparatively low …
Following market reforms, the Chinese bamboo sector has been transformed over the last 20 years. Bamboo land* which used to be collectively owned by communities has been largely contracted out to farmers for 30-50 years on a family basis. State monopoly in purchase and marketing of bamboo products was abolished …
The red earth of Karnataka's Bellary district has become a symbol of the region's red-hot iron ore market, witnessing an unprecedented boom. Bellary has been supplying iron ore to China for the last few years and the Chinese demand for the ore has spiralled like never before, ever since Beijing …
Vanilla is a climbing terrestrial orchid grown in warm humid tropics. It is the second most expensive flavouring spice after saffron. Vanilla planifolia is the commercially grown variety. Growing of vanilla beans is quite complicated and labour intensive and its processing is a slow process requiring skills. Quality of vanilla …
even as it scrambles to enforce internationally recognised standards for its agricultural exports, Sri Lanka has requested for a six-month extension of the eu 's new food hygiene rules on imports, to be effective from January 1, 2006. Tea, the country's top agricultural export, is expected to be the worst …
function graph() { var popurl="files/images/20050731/26-graph.jpg" winpops=window.open(popurl,"","width=400,height=300,scrollbars=yes") } Here is a piquant contradiction: forest-rich states in India are beginning to grumble about the natural wealth they possess, and are protecting. In his speech to the 12 th Finance Commission (fc), Virbhadra Singh, chief minister of Himachal Pradesh
pakistani seafood exporters have been driven to the brink by a recent government ban on seafood exports following an inspection by a three-member team of the eu Food and Veterinary Office (fvo). T he team warned Pakistani authorities that the country would lose its largest seafood export market if it …
the Comptroller and Auditor General of India (cag) recently unearthed a Rs 2,125 crore scam involving the Food Corporation of India (fci), under the Union ministry of consumer affairs, food and public distribution (mocafpd). cag has charged both fci and the ministry with unduly favouring foodgrain exporters in fixing the …
At its request, Spices Board was permitted to undertake development of vanilla and is engaged in this endeavour to add another item to the spice export basket. It has only few exclusive vanilla related programmes and they are supply of subsidized planting materials and on farm curing aids.
Having known the export potential of vanilla Spices Board during IX plan took up a programme to popularize the crop in Kerala and Karnataka. As a result by the end of the plan period about 320 hectares were brought under cultivation. The programme was extended with a targeted area of …
