Boosting industry will tax resources base

Budgetary provisions aimed at giving a fillip to industry, will add to the burden on the country's resources.

Deadly generosity

Eighty-four nations may have 'agreed' to ban the export of poisonous wastes, but major players in the trade like Germany could ruin the …

A climate change for the artisan

Will demand for eco-friendly goods mean a decline in artisnal skills?

Cultural icon

Bengalis on both sides of the border agree hilsa from the Padma is far superior to hilsa from the Ganga

Budgetary provisions are export oriented

The budget seeks to encourage technological change in India, especially in export-oriented industries, and to obtain private funding for …

The dollar-conscious producers

Two firms in Tamil Nadu show the way to exporting organically produced foodstuff.

Good catch, bad catch

What do efficient fishing gears mean to traditional fisherfolk?

America’s frozen aid

A commodity from their former colony kept the English cool in 19th century India

Sharks in soup

India goes against world in not banning shark fin trade

Homeless hilsa

The ocean fish that swims against the tide to spawn in rivers is moving away from Bangladesh

Largesse with agenda

Chinese honey route

Thriving honey laundering traced to Asian giant

Bee farms to shops

Big firms control honey supply

Costly silence

No one is debating where goats will graze

Beyond failure

What of the Doha round? What of the WTO itself?

In the snakepit

How negotiations on issues moved, or didn't

Natural and pure?

There is no way one can tell

In short

South Africa resumes seafood exports to Russia

12 South African companies granted licence to export canned and frozen fish

The anatomy of a ban

THAILAND

Trouble brewing again

Product with a bite

Shrimp mentality

The us ban on exports of shrimp from India reflects a myopic approach and is likely to rebound when India takes the case to the World Trade …

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