'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 …

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 …

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 affect farmers

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

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 …

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

Sweet victory

UPs cane farmers get to quote their price in a sellers market

Sugarcane farmers caught in a maze of brotherhood of brokers

Sugar barons enjoy political proximity with all ruling parties and switch political loyalties just to stay in power

India’s sugar output increases in December despite low production in several states

Substantial increase in sugar production in Uttar Pradesh compensated production decline in Karnataka, Gujarat, Andhra Pradesh and Telangana

Sugarcane stir

Partial relief for agitating sugarcane farmers in south Maharashtra

Sugar factories in Sangli and Kolhapur offer Rs 200 more than the earlier price

Why are Punjab farmers unhappy despite loan waiver, cash in hand

The issue of farm distress needs to be taken up as a long-term project and should not be looked through the prism of small-term electoral gains