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The Rubber Board will launch a digital platform called ‘INR Konnect’ on a pilot scale soon to document all details of untapped rubber plantations. Executive Director of the Board M. Vasanthagesan said at the annual conference of the United Planters Association of Southern India in Coonoor on Wednesday (September 23) that growers have plantations in…
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A tapper collecting latex from a rubber tree at a plantation in Kanjirappally, Kottayam. | Photo Credit: The Hindu The United Planters’ Association of Southern India (UPASI) has urged the government to maintain status quo on the import duty on natural rubber as a section of the rubber user industry has sought reduction of the…
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Representational image of an onion farmer with his produce in Beed, Maharashtra. There has been frequent imposition and lifting of bans on the export of onions | Photo Credit: B. Jothi Ramalingam India’s merchandise exports rose 1.07% to hit almost $35 billion in April while imports jumped 10.25% to $54.1 billion, as per Commerce Ministry…
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