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 …
What’s really in your cuppa? - A special investigation into the hidden costs of tea, milk and sugar. http://files.theecologist.org/Pdfs/Whats_in_your_cuppa.pdf
Cyclone Yasi pushes global sugar prices to record highs. Global sugar prices have shot up to historic highs after Cyclone Yasi hit the Queensland coast in Australia. On February 2, white (refined) sugar prices for March 2011 delivery touched a record high of $845 per tonne. However, Indian sugar mills …
Lucknow: With introduction of SMS as mode of communication between farmers and sugar mills this crushing session, a new era of transparency has dawned in sugar industry of UP. A beep on mobile phone of the farmer has effectively ended many woes including his harassment by middlemen, clerks and bank …
Biofuels produced from various lignocellulosic biomass such as agro forest residues have been recognized to have potential, to be available substitute for or compliment to gasolines. These biofuels derived from plant materials have the potential to address the two main issues - carbon neutral and renewable. In addition they are …
Taking yet another step closer to its target of becoming power surplus, Uttar Pradesh government signed two MoUs with sugar major Bajaj Hindusthan and Parekh Aluminex for the generation of 1,980 mw and 250 mw power in the state on Tuesday. Energy secretary, GoUP, Navneet Sehgal, signed the MoUs with …
SUGAR COMPANY TO BUILD A SERIES OF PLANTS IN UTTAR PRADESH Our Bureau LUCKNOW SUGAR major Bajaj Hindusthan has committed 22,500 crore investment in power projects in Uttar Pradesh over the next 4-5 years. The company on Tuesday entered into an MoU with the UP government to set up a …
Kunal Bose / November 30, 2010, 0:05 IST The other day the director general of Indian Sugar Mills Association Abinash Verma made an impassioned plea for the central government to announce the final price of ethanol to be procured by oil marketing companies (OMCs) for blending with petrol. Till such …
IRKED with the draft report of an expert panel recommending the scaling down of the much-vaunted programe to blend ethanol with petrol, the food ministry has gone formally bawling to the Planning Commission. The ministry has complained that the panel headed by planning commission member Saumitra Chaudhuri has
There is great demand for insights on how to structure agricultural investments in ways that leave land and share value with local farmers and communities. And in many parts of the world, there is growing experience with models for structuring agricultural investments other than large-scale land acquisitions. This publication captures …
Increase reflective of tightening of farm labour markets. Sugar mills in Maharashtra have agreed to a 23 per cent wage increase for cane harvesting labourers during the 2010-11 crushing season (October-September).
By giving cane farmers increasing prices every year, the government has made cane farming inefficient and uncompetitive The government is exercised about the food grain situation. It faced criticism from the Supreme Court for letting food grains rot in the rains instead of feeding the poor. The Prime Minister has …
Ajay Modi / New Delhi September 14, 2010, 0:13 IST In what could lead to an overhaul of policy, the Union government is looking at a new sugar subsidy mechanism as part of its decontrol proposal. It plans to rope in state governments for the purchase and distribution of sugar …
RICH DIVIDENDS FOR OMCs, NO REAL BENEFIT FOR CONSUMERS & FARMERS ONE FUNDAMENTAL QUESTION TO ASK over ethanol pricing even as a panel chaired by Planning Commission member Saumitra Chaudhuri examines a
Ajay Modi / New Delhi September 3, 2010, 1:15 IST Offers 1,000 million litres ethanol to OMCs. The sugar industry has offered to supply around 1,000 million litres ethanol to oil marketing companies for blending it with petrol. This is more than the 860 million litres required for blending the …
On 16 August, the government gave the green signal to blend 5 per cent ethanol with petrol, even as it hiked the price of ethanol from Rs 21.50 to Rs 27 per litre. And while the Planning Commission is examining the issue of ethanol blending and pricing in detail before …
Maharashtra on Sunday banned the import of sugarcane from other states to tackle 30% surplus production of the crop. The decision was arrived at following a high-level meeting chaired by chief minister (CM) Ashok Chavan, which included deputy CM Chhagan Bhujbal, Nabard chairman Umesh Sarangi, cooperation minister Harshvardhan Patil and …
IT WAS a big win, at least for now, for the powerful Maharashtra sugar lobby when the three ministers from the state on the ethanol GoM clinched the contentious price of Rs 27/litre for ethanol at the CCEA on Monday. Under intense lobbying from ministers Vilasrao Deshmukh, Murli Deora and …
