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Chile in the 1970s planted millions of Monterey pine and eucalyptus trees for timber, but scientists now say many native forests have been replaced, while streams and wildlife have declinedChile's biodiversity hotspot has witnessed a dramatic native forest decline since 1960, replaced by fast-growing pine plantations. Driven b...
From forests to fields: How India's earliest rebels fought colonial exploitation before 1857Across the annals of Indian history, we find vivid accounts of agrarian resistance standing firm against exploitation. From indigenous fore...
Patanjali Foods Q4 Results: Profit jumps 46% to Rs 524 crore despite margin pressurePatanjali Foods reported a strong rise in quarterly and annual earnings, driven by robust growth in its edible oils and FMCG businesses. Wh...
What happens when investors stop SIPs during crises–real investors, real panic, and the real cost of walking awayFrom a cancer diagnosis in Kolkata to a layoff in Bengaluru to Covid panic in Agra—real investors, real crises, and the real cost of walkin...
Ramdev's Ruchi Soya to start palm oil plantations in North EastThe oil processor which was taken over by the Patanjali group two years back after it slipped into the red has already done field surveys f...
Guest house for employees a perk, cannot claim GST input credit rules Odisha AAARThere is a thin line between perquisite and business expenditure and the ruling does not do anything to reduce confusion.
Kerala planters seek nod for large-scale intercroppingThis will help raise overall transaction of industry; planters seek policy & dedicated department under industries ministry.
Association of Planters of Kerala urge state govt to abolish plantation tax and agricultural income taxThe association chairman Thomas Jacob said the crop production has come down by 30 per cent in tea, 14 per cent in rubber, 60 per cent in c...
Nirmala Sitharaman seeks GST exemptions for leather, cement, service exportsThis includes import of raw material under the Advance Authorization scheme and import of capital goods under Export Promotion Capital Good...
Commerce Ministry for exempting exports from GSTMinistry officials argued the need for granting an "ab-initio" exemption from GST for exporters saying seeking tax refunds erodes working c...
Kerala government doles out sops to plantation companiesThe most important of the measures was the allocation of Rs 500 crore to help the small growers in the rubber sector.
Planters’ body wants labour Plantations Labour Act scrappedThe United Planters’ Association of Southern India (Upasi), an apex body of planters in south India, has called for the scrapping of the Pl...
United Planters’ Association of Southern India denounces strike tactics of tea workers in KeralaUpasi president Vijayan Rajes said the wages added with statutory and other benefits work out to Rs 410.72 per day.
Indian planters demand scraping of several levies imposed on tea plantationsAssociation wants some sops from govt like scrapping of plantation tax of Rs 700 per hectare & land tax of Rs 500 per hectare to tide over ...
Association seeks immediate reconstitution of Tea boardA meeting of stakeholders in the tea industry today urged the Centre to immediately reconstitute the Tea Board and appoint a full time Chai...
Plantations in Kerala may 'bleed and sink' after hike in taxesPrices of tea & rubber have been dropping, threatening to push the sectors back to 1999-2006 crisis situation, said APK chairman Gilbert D'...
- Large estates in Kerala seek rubber replanting subsidy
To tide over the huge replanting cost in the rubber plantation sector, the large estates including corparates have approached the Rubber Bo...
- Plantation tax on tea estates for 2007-08 waived
Kerala Cabinet on Friday decided to exempt tea plantations from plantation tax for 2007-08, Chief Minister V S Achuthanandan said.
- Tea, coffee plantations to have tax holiday
The Kerala Government on Wednesday decided to give tax exemption for tea, coffee and cardamom plantations in the state for a year.
- Plantation industry struggles for survival
The plantation sector, which employs five million people, has not benefitted from the economic boom and is "struggling for its survival", a...