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 Sickly sweet business [1]

arun Kumar, a jaggery trader of Muzaffarnagar Gur Mandi in Uttar Pradesh (up), has fallen upon hard times. "During the past decade, the gur (jaggery) business has slumped by two-thirds,' he laments. His brother, Roshan Lal, who is the secretary of the mandi union too feels the situation is hopeless: "The future of jaggery trade is bleak in up.' What appears to have sounded the death-knell for the business in the state

Publication Date: 
30/05/2003
Richard Mahapatra [2]
Down to Earth [3]
Tags:
Sugar Industry [4], Trade [5], Research [6], Uttar Pradesh [7]

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