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.
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.
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 an integral part of the emerging 'bio-economy' where plant material is used to produce specific chemicals and bulk industrial products.
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.
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.
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).
