Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of News Item titled "2 killed in blast at illegal cracker unit in Thanjavur appearing in The Hindu dated 19.05.2025". The application is registered suo-motu on the basis of the news item titled 2 killed in blast at illegal cracker unit …
LUCKNOW: The sugarcane farmers in UP continued to agitate against state and Central governments cane purchase prices. While some farmers set afire documents and furnitures of a sugar mill office in Muzaffarnagar and forced other factories to suspend their work, in Sultanpur, farmers blocked the roads in protest. Farmers, led …
An investigation was carried out to study the effect of distillery effluent based pressmud compost (DEPC) on seed yield and seed quality attributes of paddy cv. Pus a Basmati-1 at Seed Production Unit, IARI, New Delhi.
A federal judge has ruled that the government failed to adequately assess the environmental impacts of genetically engineered sugar beets before approving the crop for cultivation in the United States. The decision could lead to a ban on the planting of the beets, which have been widely adopted by farmers. …
Biofuels investor Clean Energy Brazil has sold its stake in a Brazilian sugar mill for much less than its initial investment after the plant's debt pile proved too much of a burden in a tough ethanol market. Brazil is the world's largest producer and exporter of cane-based ethanol, used as …
When Uttar Pradesh declared 47 of its districts as drought-hit, sugar mill owners of the state were left feeling bitter. Large parts of the cane belt are located in these districts that saw many sugar mills come up over the past several years. Already reeling under a low cane production …
Sugar mills have doubled up as power generators and produce 2,000 megawatt of biomass-based energy through cogeneration, says this latest report in Down To Earth. It recommends a strong policy-framework to sustain cogeneration, which is critical for India
Arnab Pratim Dutta Sugar mills have doubled up as power generators, with help from sound policies. But profits are falling now. Can states find a way to sustain cogeneration? Deoband, western Uttar Pradesh. The fourth floor of a building in a sugar factory complex, buzzing with activity. A contraption in …
Farmers cultivating sugarcane are facing multiple problems. Water is one of the major constraints and it is affecting the productivity and profi tability of sugarcane growers and millers. The problem is going to further deteriorate due to variability of rainfall infl uenced by climate change. So, unless sugarcane farmers are …
Mahesh Kulkarni / Bangalore April 17, 2009, 0:08 IST Following in the footsteps of Uttar Pradesh and Maharashtra, sugar mills in Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh and Tamil Nadu have stopped cane crushing in less than seven months of the current sugar season (October 2008-September 2009). The reason: lower production of sugarcane …
Ajay Modi / New Delhi April 14, 2009, 0:08 IST Low output and import duty waiver on refined sugar cause rates to rise. Despite continued government efforts, sugar prices have touched a three-year high, reflecting the demand-supply mismatch in the commodity. Ex-factory prices in Uttar Pradesh, the country
Ajay Modi / New Delhi April 11, 2009, 0:06 IST To prevent sugar prices from becoming a tool in the hands of opposition parties in the parliamentary elections, the government has allowed government agencies like MMTC, STC, NAFED and PEC to import one million tonne of white sugar duty-free. The …
The overall objective of this research was the assessment of sugar beet industrial wastewater (SIW) which could affect soil hydraulic property. A completely randomized design (CRT) was employed with irrigation treatments and three replications in a plant located in the east of Isfahan during summer 2008.
Demand market rate for power after agreeing to a lower rate SUGAR cooperatives of Maharashtra that have set up power plants that use sugarcane waste as fuel, are trying to wriggle out of their commitment to supply power at lower rates to the state-owned power distribution company, Mahara- shtra State …
People come to the Bhima river in Pandharpur, Maharashtra, to rejoice. They leave behind a drain Pandharpur, a pilgrim town on the banks of the Bhima river in Maharashtra, hosts four religious yatras every year. Over two million people take part in these yatras, which celebrate, among other things, four …
NEW DELHI: With no firmed up figure available yet on the estimated shortfall in sugarcane output this season and sugar prices shooting up, the Ministry of Food is moving to seek the permission of the Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs (CCEA) for importing raw sugar. The Ministry plans to take
There are 15 distilleries in Tamil Nadu under operation. The distillery effluent (mainly spent wash) is dark brown in colour and acidic in nature. It contains high percentage of dissolved organic, inorganic matter and potassium. Till year 2000 these units had disposed the partly treated effluent on land as fertilizer …
Virendra Singh Rawat / Lucknow November 19, 2008, 0:34 IST The Allahabad High Court today refused to pass any interim order staying the cane state-advised price (SAP), which has been challenged by the Indian Sugar Mills Association (ISMA). ISMA had challenged SAP on November 4 terming it arbitrary. Announced on …
