Largest sugar producer UP, implemented this provision in 2016-17.

Meeting was attended by Raju Shetty from Maharashtra, Yogendra Yadav, VSM Singh from UP, Rampalji Jat from Rajasthan and farmer leaders fro...

All India Kisan’s Coordination Committee, a federal body of farmers has organised a meeting of representatives of farmers union on June 16t...

Sugar prices are currently at the same level they were seven years ago, but the cost of production has increased, Dhanuka claimed.

The state's sugar commissionerate imposes a heavy fine of Rs 500/tonne on the mills who begin the crushing operations before the date annou...

The Sangathana, along with its leader Raju Shetti want the season to begin early to avoid movement of cane from Kolhapur, Sangli and Satara...

After future prices rose by nearly Rs 500/quintal in less than two months, mills had complained that traders were not buying sugar at highe...

Sugar millers and farmer bodies in Maharashtra say largescale speculative trading has pushed sugar prices up but this has brought no gains ...

As some mills paid their first advance lower than the agreed price, SSS had disturbed cane crushing in Kolhapur-Sangli region of Maharashtr...

Maharashtra sugarcane farmers, who haven’t been paid even two months after the start of crushing, have launched protests to press for their...

Sugarcane pricing has always been a thorny issue in India. A high price is resisted by influential sugar mill owners as it raises their inp...

"We are going to meet BJP leaders now and hope this logjam will be sorted out today," SSS leader and Lok Sabha MP Raju Shetty told reporter...

If the government does not accept these demands, then it should be ready to pay the price,” said Shetty.

UP sugar mills, which had observed a shutdown against high cane prices fixed by the state government, too have decided to begin operations.

SSS has withdrawn the agitation over cane price without getting any assurance about cane price either from the government or the sugar fact...

An all-party delegation from Maharashtra, along with the representatives of agitating farmers organizations, is scheduled to meet Prime Min...

The Union government had announced a quota of Rs 40 lakh tonne for October and November, much higher than the usual monthly quota and marke...