India has a target to export 50 lakh tonnes of sugar in 2018-19

Mills from the Kolhapur region are awaiting clarity over crop prices.

A few mills from Pune and Ahmednagar region will kick-start crushing operations this week.

Food minister said the government is not going to import sugar since the country has sufficient stocks.

With millers chasing scarce cane, farmer leader Raju Shetty is determined to get a higher price from millers.

Sugar millers and farmer bodies in Maharashtra say largescale speculative trading has pushed sugar prices up but this has brought no gains ...

Kolhapur and Sangli districts are known as sugar bowl of the state due to their high sugar recovery and these areas are also the base of wo...

Maharashtra sugarcane farmers, who haven’t been paid even two months after the start of crushing, have launched protests to press for their...

Olam International and Shree Renuka Sugars are already present in the state while a few more companies are scouting for good opportunities.

DBSIL has started expansion work to increase the capacity of the plant to 5000 tonnes per day.

CCEA has approved interest-free loans to sugar industry to pay farmers.

UP sugar mills, which had observed a shutdown against high cane prices fixed by the state government, too have decided to begin operations.

Traders from southern states, Rajasthan, Kolkata and Haryana have flocked to Maharashtra to take advantage of extreme low prices and surplu...

The freedom to sell their full production at market prices hasn't brought cheer to sugar mills.

Post-decontrol, mills are no longer required to sell 10% of their production at a low price to government for sale at ration shops.

Sugarcane crushing is limping back to normal across Maharashtra after farmers' agitation for higher sugarcane prices turned violent in the ...

The agitation turned violent from last week with the police rounding up farmers' leader Raju Shetty on Monday.