The Revenue and Land Resources Department was assigned to Lalit Kumar Yadav, who will continue with his existing responsibility of the Publ...

Sugar mills in Maharashtra and Karnataka are preparing for a battle to secure as much sugarcane as possible. Karnataka has set an official ...

Smart India Hackathon (SIH) is a nationwide initiative by the Ministry of Education’s Innovation Cell to provide students a platform to sol...

"Xylitol, a sugar alcohol derived from natural products, has potential anti-diabetic and anti-obesogenic effects, is a mild prebiotic and p...

Current wholesale prices of sugar in the state were ruling at Rs 31.5 a kg while the mills said that they need a minimum price of Rs 34-35 ...

The condition for the sugar factories is that they would purchase sugar cane growers’ produce at the rate of 270 per quintal (early variety...

A leader of Maharashtra’s ruling BJP said there was more sugarcane plantation in the state than reported by its agriculture department.

A leader of Maharashtra’s ruling BJP said there was more sugarcane plantation in the state than what was reported by its agriculture depart...

Madhav Bhandari, chief spokesperson, BJP, Maharashtra unit claims that there is more sugarcane plantation in Maharashtra than reported by t...

Sugarcane crop, which is grown on just 4 per cent of the gross cropped area in the state, accounts for 71.5 per cent of the total water usa...

Maharashtra government may consider disallowing cultivation and crushing of sugarcane this year owing to severe water crisis in Marathwada ...

The fair and remunerative price (FRP) fixed for the 2009-10 sugar year by the government replacing the earlier Statutory Minimum Price (SMP...

The Punjab Government today fixed the State Assured Price (SAP) of advanced, medium and late variety of Sugarcane at Rs 200, Rs 195 and Rs ...

Alarmed by a steep drop in sugarcane production in Maharashtra in the ongoing crushing season, the state government and cooperative sugar f...

A central directive that prohibits production of ethanol from sugarcane juice has dealt a severe blow to Bihar govt's plan to develop the s...

Unlike the US, India need not use crops like maize to produce biofuel, an alternate fuel that consumes a large portion of corn production, ...

Sugar production in the country is expected to reach 32-33 million tonnes during 2007-08 season against 28.5 million tonnes during the crus...