Mangaluru: A rubber plantation of A.N. Balakrishna near Todikana in Sullia taluk caught fire on Sunday damaging palms on about two acres, sources said. The palms were eight year old and ready for tapping the latex. It is not known how the fire caused and spread. An electrical power line also passed through the plantation. […]
Mangaluru: Konkodi Padmanabha, former president of Central Arecanut and Cocoa Marketing and Processing Cooperative Ltd., said on Monday that arecanut growers need to think seriously about switching over to an alternative crop as arecanut is facing the threat of being banned. Speaking at a meeting of oil palm growers at Melkar near here, he said […]
Mangaluru: Sensing trouble in the future for the arecanut market, some growers from the Malnad and coastal belts who have begun cultivating oil palm in small quantities have decided to take up extensive awareness drives, with the support of the authorities, to promote it as an alternative to arecanut. Oil palm growers from Dakshina Kannada, […]
