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

Nature cure from India

Weighty task

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

The laboratory of development

India bans export of non-basmati rice

Six sins that make drought invincible

Crank it up

Marathwada's dry story

How poor policies pushed the region into one of its worst droughts ever

Call for moratorium on biofuel

Bihar govt teams carrying out operations against locust swarms

The insects have spread to 11 districts of the state in the past four days

Sugar cane price: UP farmers settle for Rs 245-250 per quintal

Karnataka and Maharashtra farmers get much less, stage protests  

Centre hikes sugarcane fair and remunerative price amid farmers’ protest

FRP usually announced in June as sugar season starts from October; new price hikes by Rs 25 at Rs 340 per quintal

Drought of equity

A large part of Maharashtra has been declared drought-hit. But distribution of water is quite incongruous. While the few who are politically and …

A continental crisis, and a few green shoots

African countries are fighting an addiction: import of food items, which happens at the cost of domestic farmers. Despite the unprecedented …

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 …