As climate change intensifies, it is imperative for policymakers to address the escalating loss and damage it inflicts on vulnerable communities in developing countries. In India's Maharashtra state, these impacts are forcing rural families into life-altering decisions and migrations to work in sugarcane fields, where exploitative practices by contractors, including …
Brazil and the US are locked in hot competition over ethanol trade, with the former seeking more market access and the latter determined to protect its domestic producers.
BHUBANESWAR: After system of rice intensification (SRI) paddy, it is sustainable sugarcane initiative (SSI) which would be the next generation sugarcane production technique with the rising labour cost and water crisis in the State. The SSI method would not only be requiring less labour and water, but it would also …
The highest sugarcane price in Uttar Pradesh paid by sugar mills this crushing session is likely to lead to a hike in the sugarcane sowing area, which had been seeing a decrease for several years now. While the crushing session is still continuing, sugar mills have paid Rs 12,111 crore …
As governments elaborate strategies to counter climate change, there is a need to compare the different options available on an environmental basis. This study proposes a life cycle assessment framework integrating the Lashof accounting methodology, which enables the assessment and comparison of different carbon mitigation projects (e.g., biofuel use, a …
Organic farming systems have attracted increasing attention over the last one decade because they are perceived to offer some solutions to the problems currently besetting the agricultural sector. Organic farming has the potential to provide benefits in terms of environmental protection, conservation of non-renewable resources and improved food quality. India …
BHUBANESWAR: Even as the sugar price in the open market continues to be robust, the State is facing an average shortfall of about 4,000 tonnes of levy sugar every month. Each BPL family is entitled to 2 kg of sugar a month. Considering the total number of BPL families at …
R. Sairam For improving a sugarcane harvester he has invented ENCOURAGING:P. Kantharaj of Arapalayam in the city demonstrating the sugarcane harvester invented by him. MADURAI: The National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development (NABARD) has sanctioned Rs. 1.38 lakh to a farmer here for improving a sugarcane harvester he invented. …
For private sugar mills, which have huge consignments of raw sugar lying dumped at ports in Gujarat, the wait is finally over. The Mayawati government has finally agreed to lift the ban on transportation of raw sugar in UP. Now mill owners can bring the raw sugar to UP and …
A GOVERNMENT plan to buy ethanol for blending with petrol at a price of Rs 27 per litre may be limited to six months, although agriculture minister Sharad Pawar has asked the price to be frozen for the next three years in line with the demand by sugar mills. Mr …
Any policy on blending ethanol with petrol has to keep in mind the costs involved in ethanol production - excessive use of scarce water to grow sugarcane and the effluents discharged in the process. Rakesh BhartiaRakesh Bhartia CEO, India Glycols Apart from reducing feedstock for the chemicals industry, there are …
Sugarcane is cultivated on 5,732 ha in the district Families making briquettes earn Rs. 800 to Rs. 1,000 daily TIRUNELVELI: Making of carbon briquettes, a cost-effective alternative fuel from the sugarcane trash, is gradually picking up in the district. The collection of wood for fuel or illegal felling of trees …
Not Willing To Slow Down Production During Peak Demand Months Of Summer, Cos Place Order For Delivery Up To June UNDETERRED by 30-year-high world market prices, beverage companies Coca-Cola & PepsiCo are scrambling to buy sugar overseas to make sure they are not compelled to slow down bottling lines during …
To say that agriculture minister Sharad Pawar is an embattled man is an understatement. Food prices have been on a relentless upward march in the past few months, and everybody is blaming him for that. The Prime Minister himself seems in no mood to cut Pawar any slack for the …
DIFFERENCES have emerged within the government over mandatory blending of petrol with ethanol. Fertilisers & chemicals minister MK Azhagiri has written to the prime minister asking that the November 2009 decision of the cabinet committee on economic affairs (CCEA) be reviewed and the mandatory blending be deferred until such time …
Grain Production To Be Down 8%, Oilseeds 5% & Sugarcane 11.8% Our Political Bureau NEW DELHI EVEN as Congress puts the onus of controlling food prices on food and agriculture minister Sharad Pawar, the latest growth estimates for the farming sector present a gloomier picture and is expected to add …
The world over and in textbooks of basic economics, price is defined as a function of supply and demand. In India, there is a third variable. It is called politics. Look around and evidence is strewn all over. Everything that is in the domain of private India is getting cheaper--from …
Acting tough on 283 sugar mills and 22 groups of sugar mills, which did not sell their prescribed quota of sugar in the market during the month of December, the government has converted a total of 3.6 lakh tonnes of sugar from these mills into levy quota that it will …
