Cheaper availability of crop loan from 0% to 4% is meant to give easy working capital to the farmer till he sells his harvest.

NABARD has made projection of a PLP of Rs 91,234 crore for the priority sector for Maharashtra for 2014-15, an increase of 14% over previou...

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

A Rs 40,000 crore package under the New Textile Policy of Maharashtra 2011-17 aims to attract cotton processors from Gujarat.

Maharashtra cane farmers are gearing up to fight for a higher price for the 2011-12 crushing season which is three months away.

Maharashtra’s sugar production this year is expected to drop by nearly half over its production of last year.

Sugar cooperatives in the state, which have installed power plants for producing power from the waste product, bagasse, are now looking to ...

The state’s sugar co-operatives are not happy with petroleum companies fixing the price of ethanol at Rs 21.50 per litre, which according t...

Sugar production in the forthcoming season, 2008-09 (October-March) is expected to be 25% lower than the current year’s, according to very ...

It's that time of the year again, when an ever-willing Maharashtra government comes out with sops for the sugar sector, a politically sensi...

Several sugar co-operatives in the state are devising a way to change the existing structure. They want either to go the private way or con...

Despite sugarcane crushing expected to continue till early June, the state’s sugar commissionerate expects between 8 lakh tonne and 10 lakh...

Power in Maharashtra flows from sugarcane, or so it seems. The state government’s proposal to push green, renewable energy by encouraging a...

Maharashtra expects a second consecutive record breaking year, with sugarcane production expected to be 840 lakh tonnes, giving sugar produ...

For Pune's sugar mills to start crushing cane in a month, the total bailout package will be over Rs 1,200 crore.

In an effort to ensure that sugar prices do not slide and mills are able to pay farmers at least the binding statutory minimum price (SMP),...

The Centre’s ban on exports has caused losses of around Rs 119 crore to the state’s sugar industry.