In fact, the cane commissioner had written a letter pointing out the same issues to the food secretary last month and sought the Centre’s intervention. Sugar millers from Maharashtra are attempting to ...

Sugar Board Chair Nicholas Gumbo announced that 80% of the current workforce will be retained, with the remainder phased out through negotiated retirement packages. The announcement comes amid a ...

Speaking to Daily Monitor at the weekend, Mr Bunty Seeruttun, the factory’s director for agriculture, said with mechanisation, more work will be done compared to relying on manual labourers Speaking ...

India is facing potential delays in the harvest of its massive sugarcane crop, threatening supply worldwide, as millions of migrant workers needed for the harvest may be scared to travel as ...

As many private sugar factories are allegedly cheating sugarcane growers in weighing cane and denying minimum support price, the State government on Friday informed the Legislative Assembly that it is ...