Millers are happy because the subsidy is more than Rs 110 a tonne they had asked for.

India, the world's biggest sugar consumer, last month scrapped a 20 percent export tax and made it compulsory for mills to export at least ...

The Health Ministry has put in abeyance the move to increase pictorial warning in tobacco products to 85 per cent effective April 1.

Food minister Ram Vilas Paswan has announced sweeping changes to the tariff structure for the sugar industry.

The biggest party contributions in India’s most politically crucial state used to be made by the sugar companies, say Uttar Pradesh veteran...

Sugar prices are likely to remain subdued for the next few months as cheap imports of processed and raw sugar continue with the government ...

The 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...

Forcing sugar companies to subsidise liquor only serves to depress the price factories pay farmers.

We need massive reform in our food administration, including an overhaul of the FCI, financial inclusion & a shift from physical subsidies ...

Leaders of farmer groups are meeting Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Monday to press for allowing FDI in retail.

The Union government is expected to discuss sugar decontrol in a meeting in the next 8-10 days, agriculture minister Sharad Pawar has said.

The Union government is expected to discuss sugar decontrol in a meeting in the next 8-10 days, agriculture minister Sharad Pawar has said.

Internationally, white sugar price plunged by $30 within a week.

Here’s another signal that elections are coming up. The government is readying another package through the speedy clearance of dues to suga...

Agriculture minister Sharad Pawar on Tuesday announced a Rs 850-crore sugar relief package.

A record production of sugar coupled with falling realisations is causing the state’s politically powerful sugar industry to run for cover.

Finance Minister Jaswant Singh's decision to allow Maharashtra co-operative banks to convert their short-term assistance of Rs 1,588 crore ...