Cotton traders await export quota norms
Depreciated rupee, coupled with low local prices has once again sharply improved the prospects for cotton exports after a gap of almost two years, while temporarily halting the galloping imports of cotton.

Silent agri war raging in TN -- Shrimps spacing out paddy
Tamil Nadu is losing vast areas of fertile paddy fields and agricultural land in the Cauvery delta districts of Nagapattinam, Thiruvarur and Thanjavur to shrimp farms.

Rupee slide to boost steel firms' bottomline
The ongoing rupee slide, whatever might have caused it, is going to benefit the steel industry. Not really necessary to explain why, the falling rupee will help exports, especially at a time when the global prices have dropped over 20% in the course of a couple of months for an important product like the hot rolled coil.


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