indian rubber prices june 9 2011, india agriculture commodities

indian rubber prices june 9 2011, india agriculture commodities - Harrisons Malayalam to ink Africa deal in 3-4 months: To acquire 10,000 hectares, invest Rs. 400-500 crore in the deal. Sees its FY12 tea exports rising 56%, production 12%. Sees FY12 rubber output stable, prices firm. Mumbai: Tea and rubber producer Harrisons Malayalam , an RPG Group company, is planning to announce a plantation deal in Africa in three-four months, a top official said on Thursday.

Harrisons, which is India’s largest rubber producer and south India’s biggest tea maker, plans to acquire about 10,000 hectares of land and invest Rs. 400-500 crore in the deal.

“We are in the due diligence process. We are assessing the political risk which is what is taking a bit of time but in the next 3-4 months, we will make the announcement,” Pankaj Kapoor, managing director, said on the sidelines of the Centrum Investor Conference.

The plantation land will be used for rubber, tea and oil palm, Kapoor added.

In India, Harrison has invested about Rs. 70-75 crore in replantation over the past three-four years. It expects its replanted rubber plantations to yield its first crop in 2012.

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canadian biogas development, biogas from sewage

canadian biogas development, biogas from sewage - Metro finds way to boost energy output from sewage: Fat and grease from slaughtered animals is now helping generate more biogas at Metro Vancouver's Annacis Island sewage treatment plant.

The methane-rich gas is so far burned to generate electricity for the plant in Delta, but could in the future be cleaned and sold into the natural gas distribution grid to heat local homes.

Waste grease from renderers arrives in tanker trucks at the plant and is added to digester tanks where bacteria treat sewage and burp out biogas as a byproduct.

The $2.6-million pilot project to add grease and fats to the process began in April.

It's so far yielding an extra 8,000 cubic metres of biogas per day and is expected to boost biogas production 20 per cent overall.

"It's working very smoothly," said Paul Lam, Metro's waste water treatment division manager.

Metro estimates the project will pay for itself within eight to 12 years, based on the value of the electricity or biogas produced and the tipping fees the region charges suppliers to dispose of the fat.

Engineers also plan to test out the use of brown grease from restaurants as another way to produce more biogas at Annacis.

Restaurant grease also goes to biodiesel makers and Lam acknowledge that could put Metro in "a little" competition with them.

But he said suppliers would ultimately go to the cheapest place for disposal.

Similar co-digestion projects exist in Europe and parts of the U.S. but Metro is one of the only operators using the technology in Canada.

The use of captured biogas – a powerful greenhouse biogas – helps Metro reduce its carbon emissions by offsetting the burning of fossil fuels.

"Selling the gas would generate more carbon credits than the electricity," Lam said, but added the power produced on site is an important backup source in case of outages.

Other treatment plants in the region, including Lions Gate on the North Shore, also capture biogas but Annacis is the first to supplement the feedstock with grease.

Metro is committed to recovering more energy from its sewage under its now-approved Liquid Waste and Resource Management Plan.

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oman coffee prices june 09 2011, oman agriculture

oman coffee prices june 09 2011, oman agriculture - Food prices stabilise at wholesale market: MUSCAT — Prices of some food items were stable in wholesale stores in Muscat Governorate during this week. While prices of other items dropped slightly.

The latest survey conducted by the Public Authority of Consumer Protection showed stability of the prices of rice, flour, tea, sugar, milk, salt, coffee, lentil and Manara cooking oil. The price of Jabal Akhdar cooking oil dropped by 0.32 per cent at some stores.

The survey showed fluctuations in prices of food items at retailers, Tharmad rice, for instance, was sold at RO 21 at some stores, and RO 22 at others. The price of Al Madina rice stabilised at RO 22.5 at most supermarkets. Thahabi flour was sold at RO 2 at some stores, and RO 2.100 at others. The price of a carton of Lipton tea ( 420 kg x 24) hovered between RO 29 and RO 30.

Sugar prices differed from one store to another in the Muscat Governorate, in the range of RO 15.800 to RO 16.400. Milk prices were between RO 28.800 and RO 28.500.

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federal nutritional guidelines, Food Pyramid Crumbles

federal nutritional guidelines, Food Pyramid Crumbles - The Food Pyramid Crumbles: Along with Surgeon General Regina Benjamin and Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack, First Lady Michelle Obama launched a USDA’s new icon in a press conference Thursday, reshaping the food pyramid into the spherical “My plate,” that gives parents a graphic representation of the mealtime configuration of food.

The plate is divided into four segments with half of the plate designated to fruit and vegetables groups, the other half to a proportionally larger grain than the protein group and a small circular dairy group in the upper right hand corner.

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iraqi wheat news june 7 2011, iraq agriculture

iraqi wheat news june 7 2011, iraq agriculture - Over 250,000 tons of wheat marketed in Wassit: WASSIT / Aswat al-Iraq: Over 250,000 tons of wheat have been marketed by peasants and farmers of the agricultural crop for 2010-2011, the Director of Wassit’s Branch of the stated-owned General Company for Grain Trading has stated on Tuesday.

“The stores of the General Company for Grain Trading in Kut and Suwaira towns have received 253,000 tons of grain, within the winter season of 2010-2011, whilst an agreement had been reached for marketing of crops of the northern parts of Wassit Province to Baghdad’s Rusafa stores,” Engineer Malik Khalaf told Aswat al-Iraq news agency.

Iraq’s Trade Ministry recently announced that southern Iraq’s Wassit Province leads among the country’s provinces in growing and marketing wheat and barley for the current season.

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what is alcohol?

what is alcohol? - In chemistry, alcohol is an organic compound that binds to the hydroxyl functional group (-OH) to a carbon atom, usually associated with other carbon atoms or hydrogen.

An important class of simple acyclic alcohols, the general formula CnH2n 1 OH. Of these, ethanol (C₂H₅OH) is a type of alcohol found in alcoholic beverages and a common language the term refers to alcohol, particularly ethanol.

Other alcohols are usually described with a clarifying adjective, as in isopropyl alcohol (propane-2-ol) or wood alcohol (methyl alcohol or methanol). The suffix-ol is shown in the IUPAC name of all substances which the hydroxyl group is the functional group with the highest priority drug, where a group of highest priority is displayed at this prefix hydroxy IUPAC name. The suffix-ol in non-systematic names (such as paracetamol or cholesterol) also typically indicate that the compound contains a hydroxyl function, and can therefore be considered an alcoholic. However, many substances (such as citric acid, lactic acid, and sucrose) contains one or more hydroxyl functions without using the extension.

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rubber price news this week, global agribusiness agriculture market

rubber price news this week, global agribusiness agriculture - Rubber futures were also inflated this week, as the market took its cues from the local spot market. The spot market was left with little arrivals last week and the onset of monsoons has also been contributing towards tightness in the market.

However, the expectations of higher produce in the coming days might be a solace for the market and might result in prices stepping back in the days to unfold. According to the Association of Natural Rubber Producing Countries (ANPRC), the production is estimated to have increased 5.6 per cent in the first quarter of 2011.

The production is also estimated to rise by another 7.2 percent in the second quarter of the year, added ANRPC. Rubber futures for the most active June contract climbed above Rs.230 per Kg briefly during the final trading day of the week, and closed at Rs.227.97 per Kg on Friday, up 6.13 percent as compared to the previous week’s closing.

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