India coffee - Indiacoffee News headlines - Plea to employ external agency to chart revamp plan (#)

  „The United Planters' Association of Southern India (UPASI), the apex body of plantations in the South, has called for a `de novo' look by the Government into the entire gamut of issues relating to the plantation sector besides seeking financial support of the Commerce Ministry and the commodity boards to engage a reputed agency to study the strategic and structural issues and chalk out a road map for its resuscitation.“

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India coffee - Indiacoffee News headlines - Coffee planters happy with budget

  „"Having made a point that the full benefits of the declining rates of interest have not percolated to critical sectors such as agriculture, we welcome the announcement on SBI's interest rate band of 2 per cent above PLR and for secured advances it is below level. The increase in price of urea and MOP will however add to the farmer's overall spending," she said.“

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  „One of the perks of being a media-person on the commodity beat is being rewarded with coffee powder for dutifully attending a press conference. Once, at a Karnataka Planters' Association press meet, I received a gift pack of 'Kelagur' coffee. It was sensational. The next time I met estate-owner Peter Mathias, I asked what's the potion?“

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  „Inevitably, despite our best intentions, we'd leave Bangalore in the afternoon and arrive at ten in the night at the hotel suite booked by Upasi for all of us. Travelling in a bunch meant that we stopped at every other place for lea or coffee, when not squabbling about who should sit in the front and who at the back.“

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  „Through this scheme, they cheat the coffee planters by adding the new rate of interest to the principal amount, in the name of renewal of interest. This only meant that coffee planters will find it difficult to repay such huge amounts of money for generations to come, considering their present conditions. The vagaries of the monsoon and the attack of the disease has made it next to impossible for planters to restore their plantations to the normal condition, he observed.“

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  „Such doubts can always be attributed to disgruntled trade rivals. What is pertinent, however, is that a test by the nationally-accredited laboratory of the United Planters' Association of Southern India on samples drawn by the Tea Board from the concerned exporter's godown in Coimbatore indicate that the quality is not in conformance with the provisions of the Prevention of Food Adulteration Act (PFA).“

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