Cyclic droughts in Marathwada fuels underage ‘gate-cane’ marriages

Practice of 'gate-cane weddings' convert adolescent girls into wives and labourers 

Data on sugarcane in Maharashtra after floods shows why accurate assessment is critical

Hands off the cane

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

Too sweet

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

Boom means bust for Brazil's workers

Crushed by sugar

Farmers in Chhattisgarh blame the state for losses

How corrupt nexus between sugar industry, governments affects farmers

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

Sweet driving

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

Sugarcane byproduct pressmud can be a sweet spot for India’s compressed biogas sector

The byproduct can help generate 460,000 tonnes of compressed biogas CBG valued at Rs 2,484 crore

Sweet victory

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

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

That's rich!

Sugarcane cultivation and manure production can go hand in hand

Between fungi

Parliament ratifies sugarcane bill

Mill owners to challenge bill

MTBE woes

Mexico takes ethanol route to get rid of MTBE

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

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

Sugarcane growers in Uttar Pradesh short changed