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.
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.
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.
An investigation was carried out to study the effect of distillery effluent based pressmud compost (DEPC) on seed yield and seed quality attributes of paddy cv. Pus a Basmati-1 at Seed Production Unit, IARI, New Delhi.
A federal judge has ruled that the government failed to adequately assess the environmental impacts of genetically engineered sugar beets before approving the crop for cultivation in the United States. The decision could lead to a ban on the planting of the beets, which have been widely adopted by farmers.
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.
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 middle of a room humming loudly like an aircraft engine. A man jotting down
Farmers cultivating sugarcane are facing multiple problems. Water is one of the major constraints and it is affecting the productivity and profi tability of sugarcane growers and millers. The problem is going to further deteriorate due to variability of rainfall infl uenced by climate change. So, unless
