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Cuba producing sugar with new technology

Cuba has begun to employ a new technology to produce white sugar, a measure that improves its qualit...

Sugarcane worker set on fire succumbs to burns

Deputy SP Jyoti Kshirsagar said a case has been registered and a manhunt has been launched to nab th...

Higher procurement price for sugarcane growers

Sugarcane growers, however, said it could be achieved only if the administration ensured irrigation ...

Jaya announces scheme for sugarcane farmers

Under the scheme, farmers taking up drip irrigation will get a 100 per cent subsidy from the governm...

Maharashtra: Sugarcane price logjam continues

The talks to resolve the sugarcane price hike issue remained inconclusive on Thursday.

Sugarcane agitation: Sharad Pawar meets Maha CM

Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar on Thursday met Maharashtra Chief Minister Prithviraj Chavan here ...

MP`s fast for higher sugarcane price continues

The fast undertaken by MP Raju Shetty at Baramati, the home town of union minister Sharad Pawar, de...

Sugarcane ‘can help in cooling climate’

Sugarcane reflects sunlight back into space and "exhales" cooler water.

Tigers make sugarcane fields their home in Lakhimpur Kheri

With gradual depletion of forest cover, tigers and leopards have made sugarcane fields in Lakhimpur ...

Is sugarcane juice a health drink?

Sugarcane juice is the latest food believed to cure diseases like jaundice, providing strength to he...

Raj writes to Maha CM, demands Rs 2200 for sugarcane farmers

Pointing at a discrimination in sugarcane prices paid to the farmers and the labourers, Raj said th...

Samajwadi Party demands increase in sugarcane MSP

Samajwadi Party leaders and workers staged a protest against the Uttar Pradesh government for not ...

UP hikes sugarcane price by Rs 40 per quintal

The Uttar Pradesh government on Tuesday increased the state advisory price of sugarcane by Rs 40 per...

Sugarcane farmers` interest to be protected: Pawar

Suagrcane production in the country is expected to go up by 16 percent in the current sugar year to ...

Union demands revised sugarcane prices, threatens agitation

The Bharatiya Kisan Union has threatened to launch an agitation for sugarcane growers if the curre...

Sugarcane growers` plea for fixing cane price

Sugarcane growers in Ganjam dist urged the authorities of cooperative sugar industry to fix Rs 2,500...

Brazil to make sugarcane fuel

Brazil will soon start producing sugarcane-based bio-fuel to be used in commercial vehicles.

DMK pleased over announcement of price for sugarcane

DMK has welcomed the announcement by C V Vaithilingam in the budget presented in the Assembly that ...

Jaya demands Rs 2500 per ton procurement price for sugarcane

AIADMK Chief Jayalalithaa on Saturday demanded that the Tamil Nadu government announce a minimum of...

Maya cracks the whip on UP sugar mills

The Uttar Pradesh government has lodged complaint against 39 private sugar mills, accusing them of v...

No raw sugar to be transported in UP till crushing continues

Uttar Pradesh government today said that the entry of raw sugar into the state will not be allowed...

Ajit threatens fresh agitation by sugarcane farmers

RLD chief Ajit Singh has threatened fresh agitation by sugarcane farmers in Uttar Pradesh if the s...

Bill in LS to replace ordinance on sugarcane pricing

The government on Friday introduced a Bill in the Lok Sabha to replace a controversial ordinance on...

U`khand Govt declares SAP for sugarcane at Rs 192-197

Uttarakhand government on Thursday announced the State Advised Price (SAP) for sugarcane at Rs 192...

Tikait demands higher prices for sugarcane

Demanding higher prices for sugarcane in UP, Mahendra Singh Tikait on Tuesday said that if farmers ...

Tikait to sell sugarcane in U’khand if demands not met

Bhartiya Kisan Union chief Mahendra Singh Tikait on Sunday threatened to sell his produce in Uttar...

Ajit Singh to hold panchayat of sugarcane farmers

Even as the Centre decided to withdraw the sugarcane ordinance, RLD chief Ajit Singh today said he...

Uttar Pradesh farmers to sell sugarcane in other states

Sugarcane farmers in Uttar Pradesh will sell their produce to sugar mills in Uttarakhand and Haryana...

UP farmers threaten to sell sugarcane to Haryana, U`khand

Sugarcane farmers on Friday threatened to sell their produce to mill owners in neighbouring states ...

Farmers clash with UP police over sugarcane price

Agitated over the government`s sugarcane policy, farmers in Uttar Pradesh`s Muzaffarnagar and Baghpa...

Govt may table bill to replace cane ordinance next week

The government hopes to table the bill to replace the sugarcane ordinance on prices in Parliament ne...

Talks on sugarcane pricing at all-party meet fail

Discussions on sugarcane pricing remained "inconclusive" at an all-party meeting, which was called t...

Sugarcane farmer in Uttar Pradesh commits suicide

Distressed at not getting an adequate price for his produce, a debt-ridden sugarcane farmer allegedl...

Government playing sugarcane politics: Mayawati

UP Chief Minister and Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) president Mayawati has accused the central governmen...

Government may amend `state` term in Sugar ordinance

In a bid to resolve the problem over sugarcane pricing controversy, the Government is understood t...

Sugar mills continue to remain shut

Work continued to remain stalled in sugar mills across western Uttar Pradesh, with farmers refusin...

Rajya Sabha adjourned for day over sugarcane prices

The Rajya Sabha was adjourned for the day on Friday following noisy protests by the opposition on th...

Sugarcane issue: Parliament adjourned till Monday

Work in both houses of Parliament stalled for the second consecutive day over sugarcane prices.

BJP, RJD, SP hit out at Pawar over sugarcane policy

RJD and SP today joined the main opposition BJP in attacking Union Agriculture Minister Sharad Paw...

Farmers up attack on sugarcane price, PM promises relief

Under a combined opposition attack that stalled Lok Sabha, government promised to amend the controv...

Farmers protest new sugarcane pricing

Hundreds of sugarcane farmers from western Uttar Pradesh today staged a demonstration in the city to...

Lok Sabha adjourned for the day over sugarcane prices

The Winter session of Parliament got off to a chaotic start Thursday with the Lok Sabha being adjour...

UP farmers gather in New Delhi to protest sugarcane prices

Holding sugarcane stems and shouting slogans, hordes of farmers from Uttar Pradesh arrived in Delhi ...

Bringing Sugarcane (Control) Order not anti farmer: Cong

With the party facing opposition over the Centre`s Ordinance on uniform pricing for sugarcane, Con...

Sugarcane farmers want state control over pricing to go

Uttar Pradesh sugarcane farmers held a massive protest meeting here on Thursday against the current ...

Govt mulls raising levy sugar quota to boost supply

To boost the supply of sugar and curb its price rise, the government is mulling increasing the amoun...

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