the Bihar government on December 28, 2007 announced a Rs 43 crore subsidy for sugar mills in Bihar to help clear the Rs 90 crore arrear of the crushing season 2006-07 to cane growers. The rest of
The Union Ministry of Food and Consumer Affairs is contemplating a 12 per cent interest subsidy to sugar mills and 5 per cent to farmers. There has been a face-off between it and the finance ministry over the interest subsidy for farmers. The finance ministry says the move is anti-farmer and wants a hike in the subsidy for farmers. A 5 per cent subsidy would mean that the centre will have to foot a Rs 550 crore bill, while a 12 per cent interest support would cost it Rs 1,350 crore.
people from Uttar Karnataka's Dandeli town are opposing a move to draw water from the Kali river for a sugar mill proposed downstream. They say the factory will use up water meant for them. The
any inkling of danger to Indians in other parts of the world is often enough to send the country's media into a panic overdrive. Sometimes understandably so. Most non-resident Indians retain
THE temptation to pick up one of the golden clumps of gur (jaggery) seemed overwhelming as we walked around Asia's largest gur market. But Pramod Kumar Jain, our companion, urged restraint. "Do
The present study deals with physico-chemical analysis, treatment and utilization of Deoband sugar mill effluent. The effluent is treated with alkaline solution of hexacyanoferrate (III). 2007
The physico-chemical profile of effluent from sugar mill was determined during 2003-04. The parameters measured are temperature, colour, turbidity, pH, electrical conductivity, BOD, COD, total dissolved solids, chloride, total alkalinity, total hardness, sulphate, phosphate, total acidity, calcium and magnesium.
Allegations of sugarcane workers being worked to death in appalling conditions have diluted Brazil's euphoria over the boom in its sugarcane and ethanol industry. Working over 10 hours, on
