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The bitter sweet truth
The sugar industry’s wait for an end to stifling restrictions and regulations seems to be eternal. Even as the Prime Minister’s Economic Advisory Council, headed by C Rangarajan, had reportedly chalked out a detailed road map for sugar decontrol, the prime minister, instead of acting on it, chose to appoint another committee – headed by Rangarajan himself – to go into all the

Sugarcane farmers fear loss due to factory mishap

Sugarcane farmers in south Orissa’s Ganjam district fear huge loss due to stoppage of crushing at the Aska Cooperative Sugar Industries Limited (ASIL) where a mishap claimed three lives last

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Sour buying season for Uttar Pradesh jaggery units

Despite a 10 per cent higher output estimated for sugarcane, jaggery units in Uttar Pradesh are facing a huge supply shortage this season. From almost 100 per cent supply before November 8, farmers

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Co-generation project fails to take off

The sugarcane department’s bid to revive its co-generation project for its Kitcha and Baajpur sugar mills in Uttarakhand on PPP mode has failed to take off due to indifferent attitude of the

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Aska mill starts sugarcane crushing

The Aska Cooperative Sugar Industries Ltd (ASCIL) has started processing sugarcane from Wednesday for the crop year 2011-12 (October 2011-September 2012) with a target to produce 160,000 tonnes of

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Letters: Too much sugar

There has been a boom in sugarcane production. From less than 250 million tonnes, India has achieved a production of 780 million tonnes, which amounts to Rs 70,000 crore worth of sugarcane grown on

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