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Onion export price cut 26%

MEP brought down to $350 a tonne from $475 to lend support to falling domestic prices. The government has decreased the minimum export price (MEP) of onion by $125 a tonne to $350 a tonne, to boost sagging exports and lend support to falling domestic prices. However, prices of certain southern varieties have been kept at $400 a tonne. Prior to this, a price of $475 was applicable for .....

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Basmati can be grown in AP too

Cultivation of basmati rice need not remain confined to the North, and it can be grown in Andhra Pradesh, too, said Mr P.S.R. Das, General Secretary of the Krishna district unit of Kisan Service Organisation. He said that an attempt to grow the rice in Krishna district began at Gudivada, a paddy-growing belt, and the yields and the aroma were good. “We brought breeder seed from JN Krishi Vidyalaya, Jabalpur, and there .....

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WTO sides with Canada on U.S. country of original meat labelling: source

Canada is expected to announce it has won its trade battle with the United States over discriminatory labelling of beef and hog exports. Trade Minister Ed Fast and Agriculture Minister Gerry Ritz have scheduled a news conference Friday morning in Calgary to announce the favourable decision from the World Trade Organization. A government source says the ruling sides with Canada's complaint that requiring country of .....

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Africa-India economic mission brings agri-experts together

EMRC International and the International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT) are partnering once again for the second edition of the Africa-India Economic Mission to be held in Hyderabad, India from 11-16 December 2011. With the aim to bring African and Indian decision-makers, experts and business people together, the Africa-India Economic Mission will give participants access to India's leading .....