'The sugar sector is highly politicised'

Sandip Sukhtankar is associate professor, department of economics, University of Virginia, USA. He has authored a critically-acclaimed paper …

Centre hikes prices of ethanol to bail out sugar industry

The revised price will push more sugar mills to produce ethanol and increase their revenue

How ethanol tax in some states is affecting crisis-ridden sugarcane farmers

State taxes are affecting inter-state supply for ethanol, which could, otherwise, generate additional income for farmers

Hands off the cane

With mechanical assistance, Indian sugar cane cultivators can give their backs a break

Sugarcane crisis: Govt focuses on technology fixes, but not on mounting dues to farmers

While sugar mills in Uttar Pradesh owe about Rs 12,500 crore to farmers, the government’s measures were directed mostly towards tackling …

Too sweet

Sugarcane farming guzzles water as unsold sugar stock in the country piles up

Seven-in-one

The highly laborious and time consuming process of sugarcane planting has been made simpler, thanks to a multiple-function device developed by …

सियासत में पिसता गन्ना-2: ठंडी पड़ती कोल्हू की आंच

सियासत के  शिकार गन्ना किसानों पर आधारित डाउन टू अर्थ की श्रृंखला में प्रस्तुत है चीनी मिलों से पहले अस्तित्व में आए कोल्हू के ...

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” ...

Deep-rooted gains

Intercropping soybean with sugar cane not only is more profitable but also benefits the latter crop

Boom means bust for Brazil's workers

Crushed by sugar

Farmers in Chhattisgarh blame the state for losses

Sweet death

Red rot, a fatal fungus eating into the sugarcane crop in western Uttar Pradesh, has left India drastically short on sugar. BIJOY BASANT PATRO …

सियासत में पिसता गन्ना-4: चीनी मिलों पर सत्ताधारी नेताओं का कब्जा

गन्ना किसानों की यूनियन स्वाभिमानी शेतकारी संगठन के नेता राजू शेट्टी का कहना है कि चीनी मिलों में राजनेताओं के कब्जे के कारण गन्ना ...

Sugar mills owe cane farmers Rs 18,143 crore

Food minister Paswan’s information to Parliament dates some dues back to 2017-18 season

An Old tree and some wise men

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

How corrupt nexus between sugar industry, governments affects farmers

India is the second-largest producer of sugar in the world, after Brazil

खेतों में खड़ा है गन्ना तो किसान कैसे करें गेहूं की बुआई?

खेतों में गन्ना खड़ा है, लेकिन चीनी मिल संचालक किसानों को पर्ची नहीं दे रहे हैं, जिसके चलते किसान अपने खेतों में खड़ा गन्ना ...

Making science, technology serve the people

For R S Hegde, a primary school principal and rural technologist, science is useless if it remains confined to labs and libraries.

Sweet driving

Environmentally friendly process to produce hydrogen

After 250 research articles, Jim Dumesic, a professor of chemical engineering at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, USA, would much rather …

गुस्से में क्यों हैं गन्ना किसान?

भारत के गन्ना किसानों के दुख अनेक हैं। कभी समय पर पैसा नहीं मिलता तो कभी खरीद मूल्य नहीं बढ़ता। एक बार फिर उत्तर ...

Maharashtra sugarcane farmers taught green skills

The Mukti Sangharsh Movement is teaching farmers in Maharashtra's sugar belt scientific methods of moving from single-crop, fertiliser-intensive …

Maharashtra’s new Sugarcane Price Control Board to meet this week

Farmers expect conflict over sugarcane prices to abate with the new board in place

Joint retaliation