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 …
The sugarcane industry is one of the major water consuming industries. They play a major role in national economical development programmes. India is the second largest producer of sugar in the world. If untreated sugar effluent is discharged into the water bodies, it depletes dissolved oxygen in water and makes …
East Africa should tap its large cogeneration potential, burning waste from its sugar and tea output to cut reliance on hydro power, which is increasingly hit by drought, an energy analyst said on Wednesday. Stephen Karekezi, Director of the African Energy Policy Research Network (AFREPREN), said the region was relying …
Apprehending that farmers were turning away from cane farming due to the apathetic attitude of the Centre and state governments, the BJP has demanded the cane price be fixed at Rs 300 per quintal for upcoming crushing season. State vice-president and spokesman of BJP Hriday Narayan Dixit, while talking to …
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 …
Governor K. Sankaranarayanan today iterated that sugar would be made available through all PDS outlets in Jharkhand in a determined move aimed at undoing a nearly seven-year-old anomaly when the state, then newly carved out of Bihar, gradually abandoned picking up stocks due to high transportation costs leading to exorbitant …
At least 27 people have died in northwestern Pakistan and nine are missing in flash floods since the weekend that have also destroyed houses, crops and livestock, the United Nations said Tuesday. "The final toll could be higher," Elisabeth Byrs, spokeswoman of the U.N. Office for Humanitarian Assistance (OCHA), told …
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 …
Casuarina equisetifolia L. and Lantana camara L. leaf litter, sugarcane bagasse and empty oil palm fruit bunch (Elaeis guineensis Jacq.) were converted into charcoal using carbonization process. An increase in temperature from 200
Dr Muhammad Rashid, Director General Agricultural (Research) asked agricultural scientists to develop new technology to increase water-use efficiency. He stated this while addressing a seminar on Research Activities and the Achievements of the Agronomic Research Institute, Faisalabad. He said that water was the most precious resource, so it should be …
The projected 40 per cent shortfall in water flows for ongoing Kharif season is bound to have serious impact on crops and make growers of Sindh to suffer more in economic terms. The growers believe that after cut in water flows Sindh will receive hardly 3,500 cusec from Taunsa-Panjnad link …
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 …
The Brazilian government and the sugar cane-based ethanol industry are hoping to head off complaints about harmful environmental and labor practices by investing in socially responsible production methods, speakers at the 2nd Ethanol Summit 2009 said on Monday. Brazil's Cane Industry Association (Unica), which is sponsoring the biennial event on …
Virendra Singh Rawat / Lucknow June 2, 2009, 0:41 IST The sugarcane area in Uttar Pradesh is likely to shrink by almost 6 per cent, to under 2.02 million hectares, in 2009-10 crushing season. The annual UP sugarcane survey is on and the final acreage may fall to almost 8 …
Lignocellulosic biomass is the most abundant renewable resource on earth. Lignocellulosic materials, including wood, grass, forest residues, agricultural residues, pulp and paper mill wastes, and municipal solid wastes can be used for bioethanol production. Among these resources, agricultural residues, such as sugarcane bagasse, dominate in terms of tonnage and can …
India?s bio-fuel strategy continues to focus on use of non-food sources for production of bio-fuels: sugar molasses for production of ethanol for blending with gasoline, and non-edible oilseeds for production of bio-diesel for blending with petro-diesel. The government?s current target of five percent blending of ethanol with petrol has been …
MUMBAI: Climate change may hit the sugar industry in the state with sugarcane crop yields being reduced by up to 30% in the future with long-term socio-economic implications for many farmers. This was revealed after a four-year study conducted by the World Bank in Maharashtra, Andhra Pradesh and Orissa that …
