More than 12 lakh sugarcane cutters from Marathwada, north Maharashtra, and Vidarbha could miss their opportunity to vote in the upcoming state assembly elections on November 20. Photograph: ANI......
Former Maharashtra minister Harshvardhan Patil joined the opposition Nationalist Congress Party-Sharadchandra Pawar on Monday, days after quitting the Bharatiya Janata Party. IMAGE: NCP-SP Chief......
India's apex sugar cooperative, the National Federation of Cooperative Sugar Factories (NFCSF), has asked farmers to grow sugar canes with high sugar content. A study by NFCSF that compared the......
Better recovery of sugar from cane has thrown production estimates given by industry into disarray.The industry too has revised its estimates to 172-175 lakh tonnes as against earlier estimates of......
More than half the sugar produced so far this year in Maharashtra - about 3.4 million tonnes valued at Rs 8,398 crore (Rs 83.98 billion) - remains unsold. It is lying in the godowns of the state's......
The subsidy will be credited to bank accounts of farmers against cane price dues and are compliant with WTO norms. This will benefit millions of farmers in Uttar Pradesh, Maharashtra and Karnataka.......
Industry staring at a record surplus by next year The Indian sugar industry, second largest in the world, is creating a not-so-sweet trap for itself. Early this year, millers were keen to export......