Agriculture booms while oil traders suffer: Trading houses




To an outsider, the commodities market has just had a great year: higher prices for most raw materials, relatively low volatility and falling inventories. >>> More

India Likely To Allow More Sugar Exports If Output Over 24.5M Tons

Published on November 30, 2010 by admin   ·   No Comments
India is likely to allow more sugar exports if its output exceeds the government’s estimate of 24.5 million metric tons in the current marketing year, a senior food ministry official said.>>>> More

NA body asks minister to resolve PARC chairman issue with PM

Published on November 30, 2010 by admin   ·   No Comments  
By Ijaz Kakakhel
ISLAMABAD: Like its previous three meetings regarding seeking the status of PARC incumbent chairman Dr Zafar Altaf, whose tenure expired on August 11 this year — the NA committee on Food and Agriculture has once again asked the Federal Minister for Food and Agriculture to take up the said issue with the Prime Minister (PM).>>>> More

Agriculture income exempted but inputs taxed: RGST

IT is to some extent true that RGST is not a new tax rather a reformed form of General Sales Tax, which had already been in place for the last 20 years and the government is only trying to reform and extend its scope, but the positive aspect of these reforms still go wasted, as agri income will not come under tax net despite the claim of the government that all sectors, which were previously exempted from the GST, will now be included in the tax network.>>>> More

Cotton Has Biggest Weekly Drop Since 2009 on China’s `Tough Love’ Policy

Published on November 27, 2010 by admin   ·   No Comments
Cotton futures tumbled in New York, capping the biggest weekly drop since February 2009, as China broadened efforts to curb speculative trading in farm products and cool inflation. Orange juice also fell. >>>> more

Nine PhD scholarships within agriculture, innovation and development

Published on November 15, 2010 by admin   ·   No Comments
Agricultural Transformation by Innovation (AgTraIn) is a three-year world-class Joint Doctoral Programme offered by a consortium of six European partner institutions, which all have significant experience in research-based agricultural development.>>>>

Commodities Retreat On Worries Of China Rate Hike

Published on November 15, 2010 by admin   ·   No Comments
Commodities tumbled across the board, part of a wider market selloff as worries grow that China will take additional actions to slow its surging economy.
Data from China released Thursday showed inflation rising faster than anticipated, which could force China’s central bank to raise interest rates or take other steps to slow growth. Grains and metals had risen on the report Thursday but they backtracked Friday along with crude oil and equities markets. Cotton and sugar, which fell from multi-year highs earlier this week, saw additional declines.>>>