Industry observers said every mill has defaulted on payment of the mandatory fair and remunerative price (FRP) to sugarcane farmers.

Maharashtra’s empowered group of ministers on the sugar industry has agreed to bail out the sugar co-operatives from the short margin crisi...

Mills have stocked up molasses in the hope of selling high.

Sugar manufacturers are waiting for a government notification which will direct oil companies to buy ethanol at a fixed price for six month...

Maharashtra and Gujarat are competing to process the 20 lakh tonne raw sugar imported by private sugar mills in Uttar Pradesh.

The current spell of rain in Maharashtra will impact sugar availability, hence prices. Current estimates of sugar production remain unchang...

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

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...

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

While a section of the sugar industry has been urging the Central government to abolish SMP for sugarcane growers in view of the huge stock...

The Maharashtra Rajya Sahakari Sakhar Sangh, the apex body governing the 187 co-operative sugar mills in the state, is ready to flex its mu...

The sugar commissioner’s February 27 order asking sugar mills not to sell at below-levy rates has helped arrest the slide in ex-factory sug...

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),...

A Problem of plenty is pushing Maharashtra’s sugar industry into a financial crisis.

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

While players in the sugar sector are urging to be allowed to export the commodity, it is unlikely there will be many takers.

This time, the consolidation in Maharashtra’s co-operative sugar sector is happening more through market forces and less through political ...