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The Centre has set a new oilseeds production target of 27.8m tonnes in ’05-06, enthused by the near-bumper production of mustard/rapeseed in Rabi ’04-05. New chick-pea varieties to help curb pulses imports (2/26/2004, The Economic Times) Alarmed over one million-tonne import of chick-pea pulses and to promote crop-diversification Indian Agricultural Research Institute (IARI) has developed new late-harvest varieties of the commodity. Govt hikes support price for oilseeds (12/23/2003, The Economic Times) The Union government has decided to substantially hike minimum support prices for oilseeds crop during the forthcoming rabi season. Seed import hits HP flower producers (7/8/2003, The Economic Times) The Himachal Pradesh government would like to say it with flowers but isn’t quite being able to. Plans to bring about a 10-fold increase in flower production in the next decade are impeded by the heavy dependence on expensive seeds from Holland. `Campco promoting cocoa as an intercrop' (7/8/2003, The Hindu Business Line) Campco is planning to distribute cocoa seedlings to its farmer-members at subsidised price of Rs 2 per seedling as against a market cost of Rs 4 per seedling. Falling oilseeds crop threat to industry, consumers (4/22/2003, Business Standard) India’s total oilseed production is now being estimated to be as low as 15.44 million tonnes at the end of fiscal 2002-03 and industry experts believe that the actual crop may be even lower. Potato, seed exports set to sprout (3/18/2003, Business Standard) Export of potato and potato seed to Asian and European countries can be raised substantially if domestic policies were suitably amended. Indian potato exports represented a fraction of the total potential. Dispute over oilseeds crop estimate (8/12/2002, The Hindu Business Line) THE Indore-based Soyabean Processors' Association of India (SOPA) which looks after the interests of soyabean producers and processors has taken a strong exception to the oilseeds crop estimate released by the delegation of the Solvent Extractors Association (SEA) currently on a tour of the Far-East. Monsoon revives hopes of higher oilseeds output (8/9/2002, The Hindu Business Line) THE revival of monsoon during the last 10 days in western and central parts of the country has regenerated hopes of better oilseeds production. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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