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President Pratibha Patil appoints panel on increasing agriculture productivity

President Pratibha Patil today announced a high-level Committee of Governors of 14 states to study and recommend steps for increasing agriculture productivity in the country.  The Committee, under the chairmanship of Shivraj Patil, Governor of Punjab and Rajasthan, will also suggest measures for enhancing profitability, sustainability and competitiveness of the agriculture sector in India with .....

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Indian basmati rice consignments held in US being cleared

The US government is in the process of clearing Indian consignments of basmati rice held at its ports for traces of pesticide called tricyclazole, a senior official of the agri-export promotion body, the Agricultural and Processed Food Products Exports Development Authority (Apeda) said. Tricyclazole is a widely used pesticide in rice-growing countries, including India, Thailand, Japan and China. “The US has cleared the .....

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India goes to WTO against US dubbing export schemes as subsidies

India has moved the World Trade Organisation (WTO) over a recent US decision to categorise 50-odd export promotion schemes as subsidies. Washington's decision will come into effect from next year on all Indian exports as notified by the United States to WTO, government sources said on Thursday. "Before that," informed a commerce ministry official, "the government has sought consultations with the .....

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Karnataka signs MoUs for agri-biz projects worth Rs 37,250 cr

On the first day of the ‘Bounteous Karnataka' global agri-business and food processing summit-2011, the State has managed to attract investments worth Rs 77,250 crore, including a mega-deal from the banking behemoth State Bank of India. The two-day summit aims to attract investments in the State's agri-business and food processing sectors. While SBI will invest Rs 40,000 crore to fund agri-business projects in the .....