Last Updated: Friday, November 29, 2013, 19:41
The sugar marketing year runs from October to September.
Last Updated: Thursday, November 28, 2013, 22:42
Uttar Pradesh government and sugar millers are headed for a showdown with the industry refusing to start operations despite tax incentives to break the impasse over cane prices.
Last Updated: Thursday, November 28, 2013, 20:14
Apex sugar industry body ISMA Thursday called the tax sops offered by the Uttar Pradesh government insufficient and said mills won't start operations until the state fixes reasonable cane prices or links them to market rates.
Last Updated: Thursday, November 28, 2013, 19:05
Announcing tax breaks to end the impasse in the sugar industry, Uttar Pradesh government Thursday warned sugar mills of legal action if they did not start operations by next week.
Last Updated: Thursday, November 28, 2013, 15:35
The country's sugar production is likely to drop by nearly three percent to 24.4 million tonnes this year, but sufficient to meet the domestic demand, Food Minister K V Thomas said Thursday.
Last Updated: Thursday, November 28, 2013, 15:22
Assuring Centre's full assistance in solving the UP sugar crisis, Union Food Minister K V Thomas asked sugar mills and farmers not to "precipitate" the crisis.
Last Updated: Thursday, November 28, 2013, 13:00
Food Minister K V Thomas on Thursday met Finance Minister P Chidambaram and discussed the issue of providing a financial package including interest-free loans to the beleaguered sugar mills in the country.
Last Updated: Tuesday, November 26, 2013, 17:59
The Food Ministry will soon seek Cabinet nod for providing interest-free loans to cash-starved sugar mills to help them meet working capital requirements.
Last Updated: Friday, October 25, 2013, 19:08
In view of surplus domestic sugar output, Union Minister Ajit Singh on Friday shot off a letter to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh demanding export sops and hike in import duty to improve finances of millers.
Last Updated: Monday, October 21, 2013, 14:53
According to Indian Sugar Mills Association (ISMA), the 2012-13 marketing year has now ended with 25.14 million tonnes of sugar production.
Last Updated: Tuesday, August 6, 2013, 15:11
Sugar mills have paid nearly Rs 53,000 crore to sugarcane farmers and over Rs 5,800 crore was due till June of the 2012-13 marketing year ending September, Lok Sabha was informed on Tuesday.
Last Updated: Tuesday, July 9, 2013, 21:38
The country's sugar production is expected to decline by five percent to 23.7 million tonnes in marketing year 2013-14 starting October, due to an expected lower sugarcane output, especially from drought-hit Maharashtra, said Indian Sugar Mills Association.
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