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03 Sep 2013
In a push to make credit easily available to exporters, the finance ministry has asked the RBI to consider if export credit could be included in priority sector lending of banks. AT present, banks have to set aside 40% of their net credit for lending to priority sectors, including agriculture, micro and small enterprises and advances to other weaker sections. |
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03 Sep 2013
Increasing exports from the country would help managing trade deficit at a much lower level this fiscal as compared to the the last financial year, said Commerce Secretary S R Rao on Saturday. Increasing exports would help in managing the trade deficit which is likely to be much less in the current year as compared to 2012-13, said Rao speaking at an event in Mumbai. He added that initial indications point that August export figure is likely to be as impressive as in July when we recorded 12% growth. |
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03 Sep 2013
Most of the 15 member countries of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) have established their embassies here, reflecting India's growing engagement with a predominantly Francophone part of Africa. Burkinabe Health Minister Lene Sebgo, here on a visit, pointed out how trade relations with his country also meant access to the wider ECOWAS market of over 300 million. Burkina Faso, a landlocked country of 17 million, is among the latest of ECOWAS members to have posted an ambassador here. |
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03 Sep 2013
There is an upside to the falling rupee. Exports are up thanks to that and more orders from the US and the EU. But the party poopers could be the rising input costs and a fall in demand from Latin America, Asia and Africa. The Commerce Ministry’s disaggregated export data for the first quarter of this fiscal reveal a small increase in dispatches to the US and the EU that account for a third of exports. However, exports to Latin America, and parts of Asia and Africa, that together also account for a third of the total orders, fell. |
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Market Watch |
Commodity-wise, Market-wise Daily Price on 02-09-2013
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Domestic Prices |
Unit Price : Rs/Qtl |
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Product |
Market Center |
Variety |
Min Price |
Max Price |
Bajra(Pearl Millet) |
1 |
Kanigiri (Andhra Pradesh) |
Bold |
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1200 |
2 |
Ambikapur (Chattisgarh) |
Other |
600 |
600 |
3 |
Becharaji (Gujarat) |
Other |
1150 |
1260 |
Rice |
1 |
Addanki (Andhra Pradesh) |
B P T |
4150 |
4200 |
2 |
Bohorihat (Assam) |
Coarse |
2400 |
2600 |
3 |
Dahod (Gujarat) |
Super Fine |
2600 |
3000 |
Apple |
1 |
Asandh (Haryana) |
Other |
1600 |
3000 |
2 |
Bilaspur (Himachal Pradesh) |
Other |
1000 |
4000 |
3 |
Dhanbad (Jharkhand) |
Other |
3200 |
5500 |
Cucumbar |
1 |
Vijayawada (Andhra Pradesh) |
Cucumbar |
1200 |
1400 |
2 |
Cachar (Assam) |
Cucumbar |
1500 |
1650 |
3 |
Ahmedabad (Gujarat) |
Other |
700 |
1200 |
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Price on 02-09-2013 |
Product |
Market Center |
Price |
1 |
Ahmedabad |
329 |
2 |
Banglore |
320 |
3 |
Chennai |
338 |
Source:www.e2necc.com |
International Benchmark Price |
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Price as on: 02-09-2013 |
Product |
Benchmark Indicators Name |
Price |
Apricots |
1 |
Chinese, CFR NW Europe (USD/t) |
4200 |
2 |
Turkish, CFR NW Europe (USD/t) |
2700 |
3 |
Turkish, EXW UK (USD/t) |
1750 |
lentil |
1 |
Australian red whole, FOB Australia (USD/t) |
570 |
2 |
Canadian red whole, FOB Canada (USD/t) |
550 |
3 |
Turkish red split 0+0, FOB Mersin (USD/t) |
1000 |
Raisins |
1 |
Australian Lexia raisins, CIF UK (GBP/t) |
3700 |
2 |
Californian Thompson seedless raisins, CIF UK (GBP/t) |
1621 |
3 |
South African Thompson seedless raisins, CIF UK (GBP/t) |
1742.08 |
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Other International Prices |
Unit Price : US$ / package |
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Price on 30-08-2013 |
Product |
Market Center |
Origin |
Variety |
Low |
High |
Potatoes |
Package: 50 lb cartons |
1 |
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27 |
28 |
2 |
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26 |
27 |
3 |
Boston |
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Russet |
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32 |
Apples |
Package: cartons tray pack |
1 |
Atlanta |
Washington |
Fuji |
39 |
39 |
2 |
Baltimore |
Washington |
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35 |
35 |
3 |
Boston |
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Fuji |
38 |
38 |
Cucumbers |
Package: cartons film wrapped |
1 |
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Canada |
Long Seedless |
11 |
13.50 |
2 |
Baltimore |
Canada |
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10 |
10 |
3 |
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9.50 |
11 |
Source:USDA |
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