Bitter sweet

Who should have the first right over sugar produced by Uttar Pradesh's sugar mills - the banks who loaned the mills or the farmers who supplied …

Jaggery made using time-tested method is more wholesome

Centre launches dedicated website to contain Fall Armyworm

The next step should be to exempt anti-FAW equipment from GST, say experts

Cane fumes

Mills of Gorakhpur grind slowly, but they grind too fine

Experts give them a miss

Maharashtra finally sets up sugarcane board for regulating cane prices

Board will have the right to pay farmers a price over and above Fair and Remunerative Price (FRP) on cane decided by the Centre

Tigers in the Terai’s sugarcane fields are developing into an ecotype of their own: Rahul Shukla

Down To Earth speaks to conservationist who has documented and written about tigers growing up and surviving in the Terai landscape of northern India

Fall Armyworm detected on sugarcane crops in Tamil Nadu

Worm found in four sugarcane fields in the districts of Erode and Karur

Was ethanol the reason for the ban on broken rice exports

A look at official data shows that the allocation of Food Corporation of India rice for ethanol was drastically increased in 2021-22, as compared …

Lighting up the fields: How electricity can help irrigation

Over the years, inaccurate estimations of electricity consumption have led to untargeted approaches being applied to optimise power sector

Sugarcane growers in Uttar Pradesh short changed

Starved of fodder

Marathwada has been struggling with acute fodder shortage, but the state government has not taken any step to counter the problem

UP Assembly Elections 2022: Cane prices, arrears will have played big role in first phase voting

The farmers of western UP have been affected by the farmers’ protest and will have voted on the lines of their issues

All sugar factories in Maharashtra close before season, production drops 20%

Extreme weather events lead to drop in poor yield, sugar prices will climb, warn experts  

Maharashtra sugarcane farmers protest for better price

Agitation spreads to six districts, procurement near standstill

Experiments in budgeting water

State is trying to get farmers to budget water

Bitter sugar

Sugarcane farmers are the losers as Uttar Pradesh government, mill owners strike a deal

India reports 22% less sowing till second week of 2022 kharif season, compared to last year

The southwest monsoon has entered the country, but the initial rainfall figures have become a source of trouble for farmers

Maharashtra's cash-strapped cane growers to launch agitation

Sugarcane farmers warn of ‘halla bol’ agitation if properties of sugar mills defaulting on payments are not seized by January 28, 2019

UP Dussehra downpour: 10,000% excess rain in 3 districts of state wrecks kharif crop

No initiative has been taken so far in the government and districts regarding the survey for compensation to farmers

Nature cure from India

Weighty task

It is not easy to measure nitrous oxide, a greenhouse gas, emitted from Indian farms

Centre relaxes environmental clearance for sugar mills

MoEFCC notification comes at a time when sugar mills owe Rs 22,000 crore to farmers for cane supplied in 2017-18

Hand-holding must to make India’s jaggery units sustainable

Innovation in low-cost pollution-control technologies is needed for a cleaner and sustainable MSME sector in India

Sugar unit infringes environmental norms: How does it affect lives in Amroha

The plea alleges that pollution from the unit puts in danger the health of 5,000 students and 0.1 million inhabitants of 15 villages