Can sugar beet make sugar production in India sustainable

Growing sugarcane, especially in Maharashtra, is not sustainable any longer, because of severely depleted groundwater levels along the state’…

High on hope

Bitter sweet

Sour about Stevia

Is it a threat to the artificial sweetener market?

A new role for aloe

It's up to the people

US government's guidelines for 'good food' quite mild

An Old tree and some wise men

Unsustainable practices seem to be a suicidal trait in the fashionable development concepts of today

Limiting sugar

Bitterly sweet 'n' sticky

सियासत में पिसता गन्ना 3 : निजी चीनी मिलें राजनीतिक दलों से खुद काे जोड़ लेती हैं

भारतीय किसान यूनियन के नेता युद्धवीर सिंह ने उत्तर प्रदेश में गन्ने की राजनीति पर डाउन टू अर्थ से बातचीत की

Sweet torture

Sickly sweet business

Chemical taint spells doom for jaggery business in western UP

Price isn't right

IOC and sugar factories disagree on ethanol pricing

Less fuel, less smoke but more jaggery

Sugarcane farmers in rural Karnataka are making jaggery using an efficient and smoke-free stove designed and promoted by a school headmaster.

Hope in a heap

Farmers benefit as a factory in Maharashtra fuels its turbines with different types of agrowaste

सियासत में पिसता गन्ना-1: 156 लोस सीटों पर ऐसे किया जाता है कब्जा!

चीनी उद्योग और सरकारों के बीच भ्रष्ट गठजोड़ है। देश की 156 लोकसभा सीटें गन्ने की राजनीति से जुड़ी हैं। अधिकांश नेताओं के अधीन ...

Attacking in defence

Green sugar

Brazil

Water from sugarcane

The best solutions are always simple. This is well exemplified by the Natural Sugar and Allied Industry, a sugar factory located near Latur, …

A cakewalk

Pressmud, a byproduct of the sugar industry, is a potential source of soil nutrients and wax

Dispirited agreement

Reviving the ethanol programme, on paper

COVID19: Give-and-take ensures unhindered sugar operations in south Gujarat

Sugar production has continued in the region due to traditional interdependence, despite a complete halt in other sectors

सियासत में पिसता गन्ना-5: चीनी उद्योग के राजनीतिकरण से किसानों की बदहाली बढ़ी

संदीप सुखतंकर, वर्जीनिया विश्वविद्यालय (यूएसए) के अर्थशास्त्र विभाग में एसोसिएट प्रोफेसर हैं। उनके शोधपत्र “स्वीटेनिंग द डील? पॉलिटिकल कनेक्शंस एंड शुगर मिल्स इन इंडिया” ...

Birlas fend off bid to close UP sugar mill

Hampered by a Supreme Court order, UP pollution control authorities are finding it difficult to close a Birla sugar unit emitting acidic …