I hope, the deliberations in the meeting of this highest planning body will lead to evolving a suitable strategy for taking appropriate corrective steps so that agriculture sector is revitalised for contributing to the national economy in general and solving the problem of unemployment and poverty in particular. I hope, the deliberations in the meeting of this highest planning body will lead to evolving a suitable strategy for taking appropriate corrective steps so that agriculture sector...

In the case of the stock market, if the market continues to trend up you can buy back the short put and play out the long puts for a major down spike. The overall outlook for the energy remains bearish as the potential for problems remains but the reality is that nothing concrete has happened and cannot support this market. I see natural gas as a great trailing bear play, with put options remaining cheap and a lag effect from a broad based energy sector selloff ultimately bringing this...

These may not go unnoticed in the official cycle and all other relevant quarters while a pre-budget discussion arranged few days ago by a prominent research organisation heard speakers suggesting to the government to take measures against price hike of essentials and restore normaly in the economic and social lives of the nation, the Export Promotion Bureau (GPB) spoke about 21. The multiplicity of views in knowledgeable quarters about the country's export growth and general economic...

Farmers, who currently use 13 lakh deep and shallow diesel pumps across the country, will receive the subsidy for irrigating their croplands in the Boro season. According to finance ministry figures, a 21 percent hike in diesel prices by the government in April has pushed up the cost of producing a kilogram of rice by Tk 0. The agriculture ministry also has plans to formulate another draft guideline for distributing subsidised fertiliser through 'card-rationing' system. In addition, the...

The way the program works, the more commodity crops like rice, corn or wheat a farmer grows, the more subsidy money he or she receives. And rice is one of a number of "commodity" crops that the federal government supports each year with subsidies. Farm commodity support consists of direct payments to farmers who grow commodity crops, which in California are chiefly rice and cotton. Butte and Glenn counties rank so high in subsidies because the north valley has some of the nation's best...