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by: IANS India's retail market will grow to Rs.18.1 trillion ($395 billion) by 2010 as organised retail is expected to be 13 percent of the total market, according to a report. 'The organised retail market, which is expected to grow at 45 percent, will be worth Rs.230,000 crore (Rs.2.3...

India looks set to export a record quantity of basmati rice in the current fiscal.Last month, the official agency monitoring the export of basmati rice issued 658 registration-cum- allocation certificates (RCAC) to traders, enabling them to export 165,148 tonnes of basmati rice worth $252...

In winter 2005, Chief Minister Narendra Modi was at the Gujarat Agriculture University campus in Navsari, riding a tractor with a difference - it ran on bio-diesel. Come September, that bio-diesel will be available at a pump for the first time in India. The bio-diesel production, from...