What is El Niño and how does it affect India? Could it bring a drought-like monsoon and higher grocery bills?El Niño conditions are now active in the equatorial Pacific Ocean, raising concerns for India's monsoon. Warmer Pacific waters disrupt weat...
13 Jun, 2026, 10.13 AM IST
BRICS+ agriculture beyond borders: Trade and resilience for a food-secure worldWith India’s leadership and BRICS+ cooperation, agriculture can become not only a source of food, but a foundation for resilience, prosperi...
09 Jun, 2026, 10.49 AM IST
Science at scale: India’s journey from food security to global leadershipToday, India is the world’s largest producer of milk, pulses, and spices; the largest exporter of rice; and among the leading producers of ...
08 Jun, 2026, 07.45 PM IST
Petrol, Diesel Price Today: Check fuel rates in Delhi, Mumbai, Kolkata as sugar exports halted, milk gets costlier and gold import duty doubledPetrol, Diesel Price (May 14): Petrol and diesel prices remain stable in India despite rising global crude oil costs and West Asian conflic...
14 May, 2026, 07.59 AM IST
Rs 10 sugarcane FRP hike: Small raise, big questions for farmers and millsFarmers call the hike inadequate while industry warns of rising cane arrears
12 May, 2026, 08.56 AM IST
Forecast for strong El Nino fans worries about global crops as Iran war bitesA strong El Nino is expected in the second half of 2026. This will bring hotter, drier weather to Asia. Crops and food supplies will be aff...
24 Apr, 2026, 12.28 PM IST
India's Godavari Biorefineries to start grain-based distillery in June quarterGodavari Biorefineries is set to launch a new grain-based distillery in the June quarter. This facility will allow the company to use both ...
02 Mar, 2026, 03.12 PM IST
Country has to decide whether Jinnah's followers will cause mischief: Yogi AdityanathAdityanath trained his guns at the opposition as he joined the foundation-laying ceremony for the Noida International Airport in the Jewar ...
25 Nov, 2021, 04.40 PM IST
From farms to mills, it's a long wait for Western UP farmers just to get sugarcane weighedSome pass their time chit-chatting about the ongoing protests, others while smoking bidis or cigarettes, but all of them sound worried abou...
07 Mar, 2021, 01.27 PM IST
Maharashtra sugar output likely to be 10% below estimatesThe Indian Sugar Mills Association had said that Maharashtra would see a 3-7% increase in output last year.
20 Sep, 2018, 08.58 AM IST
Karnataka farmers seek more support as loan waiver fails to impressFarmers' discontent will be a critical issue in the four major states going to the polls in 2018, three of which are ruled by the BJP.
24 Dec, 2017, 11.04 AM IST
With reservoirs full, Maharashtra on the way to plant record caneMaharashtra's highest area under cane was 10.54 lakh hectare in 2014-15, when the state had produced 105.14 lakh tonne sugar, its highest e...
14 Oct, 2016, 12.15 PM IST
Sugar industry sees little impact from ban on new mills in MarathwadaThe ban decision announced by the Maharashtra government was prompted by the severe drought situation the region is facing and sugarcane ne...
20 Apr, 2016, 07.35 PM IST
- Sugar futures up nearly 1 pc seasonal demand, output concerns
Continuing its rising streak, sugar prices rose further by 0.99 per cent to Rs 3,580 per quintal in futures trade today mostly supported by...
03 Aug, 2012, 02.23 PM IST
- Sugar prices increase as sugar production in Maharashtra set to decline by about 17%
Sugar industry in Maharashtra, the top sugar producer in the country is expecting production to fall by at least 17% as the rainfall has be...
18 Jul, 2012, 04.02 PM IST
Making sense of sugar price muddleIt's the result of a continuous decline in sugarcane production during the last two years after scaling a peak of 355.5 million tonnes in 2...
08 Sep, 2009, 02.15 AM IST
- Switch to sugarcane to affect Gujarat’s cotton production
A low availability of farm workers in the region is likely to push the cotton production in south Gujarat below 8,000 bales over the next f...
29 Mar, 2007, 12.36 AM IST