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 …
What could be described as the maiden success of any policy initiative announced by the Mayawati government in her 30-month rule, Bajaj Hindusthan Sugar mills has announced that it will invest Rs 1,600 crore for creating 400 MW power generation capacity through five new coal-based plants
Gargi Parsai NEW DELHI: Even as the Centre is re-working the controversial sugarcane pricing Bill, Rashtriya Lok Dal leader Ajit Singh has threatened to stage a
With his basic needs mounting, the sugar mills not yet operating and the window for sowing his wheat crop narrowing, Amarjit Singh of Kayastha Ganwadi village in Meerut district decided he couldn
LUCKNOW: Even as the Uttar Pradesh government issued directives to the Divisional Commissioners and District magistrates (DMs) for evolving a consensus on the sugarcane farmers getting a price more than the State Advised Price (SAP), the growers have threatened to intensify their agitation. The cane farmers have demanded a price …
Govt Claims Mills Working, But Cane In Short Supply As Farmers Stick To High Price Demand WITH farmers remaining steadfast on their demand for higher cane prices and now expected to train their guns once again on the state government, the Mayawati administration on Sunday claimed that crushing of cane …
New Delhi: Pushed to the backfoot by Opposition protests, the Centre on Thursday blinked and announced it would roll back the controversial clause in the sugarcane-related amendments which shifted the financial burden of sugar mills on to state governments. Leader of the Lok Sabha Pranab Mukherjee told an all-party meeting …
The deadlock at the Centre over the sugarcane policy was resolved today after the government agreed to delete a controversial clause in the pricing ordinance to ensure that the responsibility of payment to farmers is borne by millowners and not the state government. This decision was taken at a meeting …
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 …
Neena Vyas NEW DELHI: The Central government took a small step backwards and the Opposition a similar step forward on Thursday on the sugarcane price issue, suggesting that an end could be found to the current agitation. Thousands of farmers, protesting against the Sugarcane Control (Amendment) Order 2009 Ordinance, choked …
Gargi Parsai NEW DELHI: In a formidable show of strength, farmers belonging to various organisations have begun to pour into the Capital to lodge their protest on the opening day of the winter session of Parliament here on Thursday against Centre
LUCKNOW: Even as Samajwadi Party held demonstrations all over the state to protest against low sugarcane purchase prices (SAP) fixed by the Central and state governments, the activists of Bhartiya Kisan Union held a demonstration in Delhi while farmers in Muzaffarnagar blocked the busy Meeurt-Karnal highway. In Pilibhit, farmers came …
Gargi Parsai NEW DELHI: Sugarcane farmers from parts of north India, under the banner of the All-India Bhartiya Kisan Union (BKU), stormed into the Capital on Monday and declared an indefinite dharna to press their demand for higher sugarcane price. They want the recently introduced system of Fair and Remunerative …
LUCKNOW: The rail and road traffic was badly hit in western UP on Monday when the farmers took to streets in protest against the low purchase prices of sugarcane fixed by the Centre and the state governments. The farmers blocked highways, damaged railway tracks, stopped trains and even set afire …
Western UP is witnessing a widespread farmers' resentment over non-remunerative prices for their sugarcane. The entire belt of western Uttar Pradesh is simmering with anger as the farmers are alleging that the prices of sugarcane have been fixed by the Government at the behest of the powerful sugarmill owners lobby. …
With having small co-generation based power plants 41 sugar mills in the state are gearing up to enhance power generation by using coal as fuel which might end current demand and supply difference of power by the next year giving much needed reprieve to consumers. Currently UP Power Corporation Ltd. …
Use of sugar cane-based ethanol as a substitute for gasoline is among the cheapest and easiest ways to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, according to a Brazilian study published on Wednesday. Cane ethanol provides about eight times the energy used to produce it and adoption of new cane plant varieties and …
