Maharashtra agri input dealers call for a strike on April 27Agri-input dealers across Maharashtra are set to strike on April 27. Associations like MAFDA and AIDA are protesting a new government resol...
23 Apr, 2026, 09.38 PM IST
Govt to decide on sugar MSP hike in coming days: Food SecyUnion Food Secretary Sanjeev Chopra indicated that the government may soon decide on increasing the minimum selling price (MSP) of sugar. T...
27 Jul, 2024, 04.20 PM IST
Govt sees no impact on ethanol blending prog due to ban on using cane juice for making green fuelThe Indian government has pledged to meet a 20% ethanol blending target by 2025-26, despite a temporary ban on sugarcane juice and sugar sy...
08 Dec, 2023, 07.56 PM IST
Sugarcane farmer's suicide triggers protest in UPA farmer committed suicide by hanging himself from a tree in Muzaffarnagar district of Uttar Pradesh allegedly due to non-procurement of hi...
06 Jun, 2020, 07.40 AM IST
Where were farmers' well-wishers when they faced starvation: UP CM asks CongressYogi Adityanath posed the query shortly after Congress general secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra launched a blistering attack on the UP gover...
24 Mar, 2019, 04.41 PM IST
Fate of sugarcane growers is tied to the health of sugar factories: SK PattanayakThe recent package for sugar factories is mainly to tide over the current problems caused by the recent bumper sugarcane production, says S...
16 Jun, 2018, 11.26 PM IST
Uttarakhand CM Harish Rawat asks sugar mills to clear 50% dues to farmersRawat asked the mills to treat it as a priority and ensure that at least 50 per cent of the dues they owe to farmers are cleared by June 30.
18 Jun, 2015, 07.16 PM IST
Pay arrears to sugarcane growers at the earliest: CPIThe farmers had not been paid the amount for the last 10 months and this had landed them in penury, the party said.
11 Oct, 2014, 12.41 PM IST
UP Cane prices may be on their way up, sugar mills miffedPrivate sugar mills have been requesting the government to either reduce it to Rs 225 per quintal or adopt the Rangarajan formula.
11 Nov, 2013, 11.16 AM IST
Sugarcane growers yet get their dues form ACSILSugarcane growers in Odisha's Ganjam district claim that they are yet to get their dues from ACSIL even one and a half months after sugarca...
19 Jun, 2013, 12.43 PM IST
Not overly worried about bad monsoon: Agriculture SecretaryAgriculture Ministry said it was not "overly worried" about a bad monsoon affecting crop production.
17 Apr, 2013, 07.13 PM IST
- Uttarakhand sugarmills produce 32.32 lakh quintals of sugar
The sugar mills of Uttarakhand have produced 32.32 lakh quintals of sugar during the crushing season of 2011-12 and Rs 580.40 crore has alr...
04 Apr, 2012, 03.33 PM IST
- Cooperative Sugarmills in Haryana produce 6.94 lakh quintals of sugar
Cooperative Sugarmills in Haryana have till date produced over 6.94 lakh quintals of sugar by crushing 94.87 lakh quintals of sugarcane dur...
04 Jan, 2012, 06.21 PM IST
- Cooperative Sugar mills in Haryana have achieved 7.71% recovery of sugar
Maximum of 14.22 lakh quintals of sugarcane had been crushed by cooperative sugarmill Shahbad and the Panipat and Meham sugarmills stood at...
19 Dec, 2011, 05.20 PM IST
- Rahul gets assurance from PM on sugarcane
PM assured him that the ordinance would be "suitably amended".
20 Nov, 2009, 10.04 AM IST
- PM assures Rahul on sugarcane
PM has assured Rahul Gandhi on sugarcane related ordinance.
20 Nov, 2009, 03.58 AM IST
- Govt to amend sugarcane Ordinance if it affects farmers: PM
The government will amend the Ordinance on sugarcane prices if it affects the interest of farmers, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said today.
19 Nov, 2009, 08.10 PM IST