If there ever was a garden variety long white cane, this apparently was it. The cashier wanted to scan the cane, thinking it came from the store’s garden section. Nope, not a garden tool, explained ...

The Centre on Friday asked the Uttar Pradesh government to refrain from fixing high cane price if it can’t ensure timely payment to farmers and if mills are not in a position to clear cane arrears ...

The Union government on Wednesday approved a Rs. 6,000-crore interest-free loan to the sugar industry to enable it to clear cane arrears to farmers that stand at Rs. 21,000 crore. The Cabinet ...

Pilibhit: The state government has extended financial assistance to 24 sugar mills in the cooperative sector, in order to safeguard the interests of cane farmers, and to reduce the liability of cane ...

ISMA urges govt to raise minimum selling price of sugar to help mills clear cane dues With the liquidity of sugar mills been hit due to the lower prices of the sweetener, industry body ISMA on Monday ...

This has encouraged mills to clear ₹8,300 crore cane price dues to farmers so far in the current season, against the total payable dues of ₹91,000 crore, he said, adding that the balance will also get ...

A panel of ministers headed by Sharad Pawar on Friday recommended interest-free bank loans of Rs7,200 crore to bail out the sugar industry from its present liquidity crunch and help clear dues to ...