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

'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

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 …

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 …

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 …

Deep-rooted gains

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

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

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.

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 …

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

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

Sugarcane farmers’ suicides: national rights body urged to intervene

Unscientific pricing of sugarcane, harassment by money lenders and delay in receiving payments are plaguing cultivators

Crop of debt

Surplus sugar production in the country has brought down sugar rates. As mills stop purchasing sugarcane, farmers are driven to suicide

Sweet residues

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India's ethanol equation

Ethanol blending in petrol is an effective way of increasing domestic petrol availability and for that, all-round efforts need to be made to …

Sweet cruelty

Sugar plantations were run by African slaves who were tortured, but they also revolted against their masters

Food for warmth

As winter sets in, people in north India turn to savoury dishes and sweets that can keep them warm. The market at this time is flooded with …