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Unprecedented rise in prices of vegetables consumption at least for the time being
Posted by ganesh in Public, businesses, ramanathapuram on November 24th, 2009
Prices of vegetables have gone up to an unprecedented level in the open market hereforcing the poor to limit their vegetable consumption at least for the time being.
A kg of butter beans and soya beans are being sold at Rs.80 and Rs.60 respectively at the Velipattinam market, where wholesale shops are functioning for small time traders of Rameswaram, Kilakarai and other semi urban towns.
Prices of beans (common) and avarai are sold at Rs.48 and Rs.58 respectively per kg by the retail traders as against the average price of Rs.24 to Rs.30. The price of the commodities (beans and avarai) for local traders is Rs.44 and Rs.54 respectively.
Brinjal is being sold at Rs.40 to Rs.48 per kg depending upon the quality.
The price of tomato, which has a huge demand, rules between Rs.34 and Rs.40. Prices of vegetables in remote areas are being sold from Rs.6 to Rs.10 from the base price at Ramanathapuram, as the traders include their profit margin and transportation cost.
Cabbage is the only commodity priced low in the market. Consumers pay Rs.24 for a kg of cabbage, the price of which also is on higher side than the usual rate.
Traders say that though this is the season (October and November) in which prices of vegetables, particularly tomato, rule high usually, no one has expected that it will rise to this level.
They cited the late arrival of northeast monsoon was the main reason for low production in different parts of the State and Andhra Pradesh thereby restricting the arrival to the main markets and end users.
Madurai ‘Malli’ growers all set to cater to manufacture scent exporters markets
Posted by ganesh in Agriculture, Exports, Madurai on November 9th, 2009
a jasmine variety that is going for geographical identity, witnessing brisk sales at the Flower Market in madurai.
Farmers of Uthappanaickanur near Usilampatti block in the district, who cultivate the famous Madurai ‘Malli’ (jasmine), are all set to get a major boost with efforts underway to link them to major buyers, who manufacture scent for export markets.
A meeting for the farmers was organised in the village on Wednesday by Government officials and bankers to guide them towards the initiative, which is intended to help them overcome the low prices for their production during off-season.
G. Baskararaj, Secretary, Madurai Market Committee, told The Hindu that another meeting of the farmers groups and the buyers would be held shortly to discuss modalities, such as deciding upon a remunerative price, how to carry out transactions, how much quantities would the buyers need daily and address the farmers’ grievances.
“If all the details were finalised in this meet, a Memorandum of Understanding could be signed between farmers and buyers. This will result in farmers getting an assured market at a remunerative price,” he said.
The Wednesday meeting was organised by the Department of Agricultural Marketing and Agri Business, National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development (NABARD), Regional Training Centre, Karaikudi, and the Indian Bank.
R. Shankar Narayan, Assistant General Manager, NABARD, said that along with the Indian Bank, they have formed 31 farmers club in Uthappanaickanur alone to help them solve their problems.
M. Kathiresan, Deputy General Manager of Indian Bank, told the farmers clubs that they should take advantage of community action, adopt modern farming techniques and also promote repayment ethics.
V. Chidambaram, Deputy Director, Agriculture Business, advised them to source their inputs as a group and added that a common collection points for flowers would come up soon. A. Jeya Singh Gnanadurai, Assistant Director of Horticulture Department, said that the farmers were eligible for assistance under the National Horticulture Mission.
membership identity card at the Kaveripattinam ‘Uzhavar Santhai’ in Krishnagiri
Posted by ganesh in Krishnagiri on November 4th, 2009
The ‘uzhavar santhai’ scheme has been badly hit at Kaveripattinam in Krishnagiri district.
The farmers’ market, built at a cost of Rs. 22 lakh with 24 shops, was inaugurated by the Collector, V.K. Shanmugam, on February 23 this year. Now adjacent to the market, another market has been put up by a few people with local political support, alleges G. Periyasamy, Taluk Committee Member, Tamilnadu Vivasayigal Sangam.
He told The Hindu that the purpose for which the scheme was launched was severely hit. Complaints to the Collector and other officials did not bear fruit.
Mr. Periyasamy said the parallel market complex christened as ‘MGR weekly market’ was built by the Kaveripattinam Panchayat Union ten years ago as wholesale tomato mandi. Since, then it was occupied by some families of the narikuravars.
Soon after the ‘uzhavar santhai’ came into operation, the narikuravas were evacuated.
The intermediaries were blocking the farmers who bring their produce to the market and divert them to markets in Royakottai and Palacode for huge commission. As a result of which, the farmers could not bring and sell their products at uzhavar santhai.
The intermediaries buy farm products on lesser price and sell the same at huge profit to the outside traders. It was said that farmers could not even sell even 20 kg to 30 kg of tomatoes.
Tomato, brinjal and ladies finger were the common vegetables produced by the local farmers. Other vegetables are bought from Hosur Uzhavar Santhai and sold here, said a farmer.
In view of these hardships, farmers in uzhavar santhai blocked Kaveripattinam-Palacode state highway recently and sold vegetables on the road. Immediately, district officials and police rushed to the spot and promised them to find out an amicable solution. But, nothing had happened so far, Mr. Periyasamy said.
After this incident, Additional Collector Darez Ahmed inspected the market and promised to look into it.
Due to this, only 12 shops were kept open out of the 24. 19 weighing machines given to the farmers were kept at the uzhavar santhai office idely.
When contacted V.C. Govindasamy, chairman, District Agriculture Marketing Committee, said that it was the duty of the Kaveripattinam Panchayat Chairman Vivekanandan to regulate the market and settle the uzhavar santhai problem.
Students told to be equipped to meet job market challenges in Vellore
VELLORE: Chairman and professor, faculty of electrical engineering, Anna University, Chennai M.R. Mohan has urged students to equip themselves to meet the challenges in the job market and adapt themselves to the world environment.
Delivering a guest lecture on ‘Career Goals in Electrical & Electronics Engineering’ as part of the Induction KEC 2009 organised by Kingston Engineering College (KEC) at the college campus near Katpadi recently, Dr. Mohan explained the opportunities open to the EEE graduates in the government sector, especially in the power plants operated by the government. He also called upon the students to pursue higher studies in EEE.
The former Director of Technical Education, P. Balakrishnan, who spoke on ‘Communication Engineering — a Road Map for Success’ said that recent developments in electronics & communication engineering have proved the dictum ‘necessity is the mother of invention’. Communication is an emerging field. In future, plenty of opportunities would open up for the students in the field of electronics, he said.
D. Loganathan, professor, department of computer science, Pondicherry Engineering College, Puducherry, who spoke on ‘Future of Information Technology’ asked the students to set targets for themselves and strive hard to reach them.
The existing economic recession was a transitional phenomenon which would give way to a boom soon, he said.
S. Gopinath, associate scientist, ABB GISL, corporate research, Bangalore, who spoke on ‘Mechanical — a Core Engineering’ highlighted the importance of mechanical engineering, citing animation movies as an example. S. Mohan, director, National Institute of Technical Teachers’ Training and Research, Chennai, who spoke on ‘Engineering and Human Endeavour’ defined engineering as nothing but an application of science. An engineer is someone who contrives to bring about something. The three categories to be derived from engineering are basic knowledge, analysis and application which lead to 100 per cent growth, he said.
B. Bhaskar, Chief Executive Officer, Origin IT Facilitation & Solutions, Taramani, Chennai, who spoke on ‘Life and Work Culture’ insisted on the value of hard work.
The industry is not looking for coders, but good professionals. As technology keeps on changing, our mind also should be like a parachute open with high aspirations, he said. S. Shirley Christina of the department of English proposed a vote of thanks.
Music downloads threaten CD market? in Chennai
CHENNAI:
Call it a fashion statement or the love for music, it is now more common to see youngsters flashing trendy mobiles, plugging in their earphone while on the move.
If FM radio in mobiles lures a few, free downloads from the Internet make music a part of life for many. While the line between legal and illegal downloads is still unclear, websites offering free music downloads continue to grow .
But will this lead to music CDs fading out, like its predecessor – the audio cassette?
“When CDs were introduced, people said cassettes would also remain in the market. But, they eventually gave way to sleek CDs with more storage capacity. Now people are going the iTune way,” says Siddharth Ghose, a freelance content developer.
K.S. Sudhakar, one of the founders of Swathi Soft Solutions, an ITES company that also compiles and publishes instructional Carnatic CDs through its Sanskriti series, says CDs and Internet downloads are complementary. “Each has its own pluses. We have launched instructional DVDs of veteran signers. Some very old archives have been traced and re-launched, which are not available on the Net,” he says.
While maintaining that music discs would continue to have takers, Mr. Sudhakar adds that the company has braced up for competition from Internet downloads. Carnatic songs and Vedic chants could be downloaded from its website for a cost. “In fact, 35 per cent of our revenue comes from Internet downloads. We see a huge market out there.”
Mobile phone operators, meanwhile, are capitalising on this trend.
“The music download market is growing fast and contributes to a significant share to the value-added service pie,” according to Rajiv Rajgopal, CEO, Mobile Services (Tamil Nadu) of Bharti Airtel Ltd. Easy downloading, music on the move and availability of latest songs are key attractions. Airtel offers over 10,000 songs in 18 languages across India and the number is growing steadily. While youngsters form a major chunk of the customer base, the ‘Hello Tunes’ service is catching the fancy of even senior citizens.
According to R. Srinivasan, Human Resources Manager, Giri Trading Agencies Pvt. Ltd, which deals in music CDs and audio cassette, with technology making copying easier, file-sharing is seen as the viable solution to prevent copyright breaches. Retail players such as the Music World are evolving themselves to suit technology-driven needs of people. Its outlets feature music kiosks, that allow downloading favourite songs either on to CDs or mobiles at a nominal rate. “The best thing about downloading from such kiosks is you will end up paying only for those songs that you like. But as we see, sale of CDs and DVDs have been on the rise and more so, when it comes to devotional music,” he adds.
Proprietors of music shops also cite another reason for the brisk sale most of them record despite stiff competition from the Internet.
The sheer experience of browsing through the collection and shopping from stores entices music lovers and would keep the business going, they say.
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