Exports

Barrier up on skirts

The Union minister of state for tex-tiles, G Venkat Swamy, has threatened "retaliatory action" against American products, if a recent US ban on the sale of rayon ghagras made in India is not

Publication Date:

14/09/1994

Source: Down to Earth

Tags:

Textile Industry, Exports, United States Of America (US), India

India

On the timber trail

The Union ministry of environment and forests (MEF) is on the timber trail. It has commissioned a study on the prospects of marketing forestry produce and is likely to allow export of plantation

Publication Date:

30/07/1994

Source: Down to Earth

Tags:

Forest-Based Industry, Exports, India

India

To feed the cattle of the West

Extensive soya bean cultivation in Madhya Pradesh to supply fodder to the West has cut a swathe of degradation

Publication Date:

14/06/1994

Author(s): Akhilesh

Source: Down to Earth

Vol:

3

Issue:

19940615

pp:

0

Tags:

Soyabean, Fodder, Exports, India

Climate Change

Keep your waste

A ban has been imposed on the export of hazardous waste despite strong Northern resistance

Publication Date:

30/04/1994

Source: Down to Earth

Tags:

Exports, Legislation, Developing Countries, Toxic Wastes

Mining

Papua New Guinea has come a long way from a society that began cultivating crops in 8000 BC and had no need for a market economy. It came in touch with the outside world just about 100 years ago. Today, it exports minerals and imports food. The people com

Publication Date:

27/02/1994

Source: Down to Earth

Vol:

2

Issue:

19940228

pp:

0

Tags:

Land Degradation, Mining, Minerals, Economic Development, Exports, Papua New Guinea

Wildlife

Report of the committee on prevention of illegal trade in wildlife and wildlife products

Ministry of Environment and Forests constituted on May 24, 1994, a committee to look into the issues relating to illegal trade in wildlife species. The committee was requested to look into the issues related to the illegal trade in wildlife and suggest ways and means to improve the existing control measures.

Publication Date:

Dec 1993

Source: Ministry of Environment and Forests

Tags:

Hides And Skins, Wildlife, Wildlife Trade, Exports, Imports, India

Biodiversity

Third World wood finds niche in global market

ALTHOUGH world trade in forest products continues to be dominated by the industrialised countries, exports of forest products have come to play an important economic role in many developing

Publication Date:

Thursday, December 30, 1993

Source: Down to Earth

Vol:

Issue:

pp:

Tags:

Forest Products, Wood, Exports, Developing Countries, Statistics

India

The dollar conscious producers

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

Publication Date:

30/12/1993

Source: Down to Earth

Vol:

2

Issue:

19931231

pp:

0

Tags:

Organic Farming, Food Process Industry, Solar Dryers, Exports, Tamil Nadu

Poverty

The vanilla's meeting

High prices and illegal shipments of inferior quality have badly affected Madagascar's status as premier vanilla producer.

Publication Date:

14/11/1993

Source: Down to Earth

Tags:

Exports, Madagascar, Uganda, Indonesia

India

Computers decontrolled

US PRESIDENT Bill Clinton announced on September 29, a sweeping liberalisation of export controls on computers and other high-technology products. This indicates a change in attitude from 1989, when

Publication Date:

14/11/1993

Source: Down to Earth

Tags:

Nuclear Research, Exports, India, Computers