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Flex reflections from BrazilIndia debates ethanol mandates, drawing lessons from Brazil's Proalcool program. Brazil's initial success faced a late 1980s crisis due to ...
India orders Pepsi, Red Bull, Monster and others to drop ‘energy drink’ label despite industry protestsIndia's food regulator has mandated that beverage brands discontinue the 'energy drink' label. This directive entails a compliance period o...
India likely won't export sugar for years as El Nino, ethanol squeeze supplyOnce as a top sugar exporter, India is now anticipating a three-year stretch of significant export deficits, primarily driven by El Nino's ...
Maharashtra millers to increase raw sugar exportsMillers are happy because the subsidy is more than Rs 110 a tonne they had asked for.
India likely to pay cane growers to help sugar mills - sourcesIndia, the world's biggest sugar consumer, last month scrapped a 20 percent export tax and made it compulsory for mills to export at least ...
Tobacco row: PMK asks PM Narendra Modi to interveneThe Health Ministry has put in abeyance the move to increase pictorial warning in tobacco products to 85 per cent effective April 1.
How sugar tariffs could dent growthFood minister Ram Vilas Paswan has announced sweeping changes to the tariff structure for the sugar industry.
Uttar Pradesh sugar industry cries foul; crisis escalateThe biggest party contributions in India’s most politically crucial state used to be made by the sugar companies, say Uttar Pradesh veteran...
- Sugar may remain cheaper with no likely change in import duty
Sugar prices are likely to remain subdued for the next few months as cheap imports of processed and raw sugar continue with the government ...
Uttar Pradesh hikes state advised price for sugarcane by 40 per quintalThe SAP or price millers are mandated to pay cane farmers for the early maturing variety of cane has been fixed at 290/quintal and the reje...
Decontrol sugar and set free the farmersForcing sugar companies to subsidise liquor only serves to depress the price factories pay farmers.
Foodgate: Massive failures of policy have dented markets for sugar and wheatWe need massive reform in our food administration, including an overhaul of the FCI, financial inclusion & a shift from physical subsidies ...
- Farmer Groups to meet Manmohan Singh to press for FDI in retail
Leaders of farmer groups are meeting Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Monday to press for allowing FDI in retail.
- Govt hints at sugar decontrol this week
The Union government is expected to discuss sugar decontrol in a meeting in the next 8-10 days, agriculture minister Sharad Pawar has said.
- Govt hints at sugar decontrol this week
The Union government is expected to discuss sugar decontrol in a meeting in the next 8-10 days, agriculture minister Sharad Pawar has said.
Cos pitch for 60% import duty on sugarInternationally, white sugar price plunged by $30 within a week.
- Sugar units to get Rs 445 cr in dues from govt
Here’s another signal that elections are coming up. The government is readying another package through the speedy clearance of dues to suga...
- Pawar announces sugar package prior to EC nod
Agriculture minister Sharad Pawar on Tuesday announced a Rs 850-crore sugar relief package.
- Sugar industry calls for export subsidies
A record production of sugar coupled with falling realisations is causing the state’s politically powerful sugar industry to run for cover.
- Pawar play seen behind largesse to sugar co-ops
Finance Minister Jaswant Singh's decision to allow Maharashtra co-operative banks to convert their short-term assistance of Rs 1,588 crore ...