Sustainability increases if ethanol is made from sugarcane juice: Study
Sugarcane cultivation has benefitted from entrenched policies that incentivised production for decades
Unpaid dues to cane farmers over Rs 15,000 crore: Govt
Sugar prices had remained depressed, which had affected the liquidity of sugar mills, a govt reply said
Data on sugarcane in Maharashtra after floods shows why accurate assessment is critical
'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
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’…
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 …
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
DTE tracks trafficking: Droughts, migrating parents leave Marathwada girls vulnerable
Sugarcane cutters’ children at high risk, targeted through proxy marriages
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