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  Centre mulling hiking sugarcane floor price by 8% for next season

  New Delhi: India is planning an increase of 8 per cent for the floor price that mills must pay for sugarcane in...

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  Makar Sankranti: Festive cheer bittersweet in Bengaluru with soaring sugarcane prices

  Bengaluru: This year’s Makar Sankranti celebrations have taken a bitter turn as sugarcane prices are soaring in anticipation of the harvest festival....

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  Falling sugarcane output, juice yield push jaggery units to jeopardy in Karnataka

  The drought in the state has been unsparing this year and there’s a spinoff effect on the jaggery-making units in the district.  Jaggery...

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  Govt hopeful of ‘bountiful harvest’ amid food inflation headwinds

  New Delhi: With India’s farm sector remaining resilient to erratic weather conditions, the government is hopeful of having bountiful food grain production...

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  Spurious products pose threat to Kerala’s GI tagged Marayoor jaggery

  Idukki: Even as GI tag has helped the Marayoor jaggery of Kerala fetch better prices, the flow of spurious ‘Marayoor jaggery’ is...

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  ‘2024 will lay the roadmap for hydrogen-powered vehicles’

  Bengaluru: If 2023 has been the year of electric mobility gathering momentum, 2024, say industry observers, will essentially be about laying the...

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  India’s road infra to match US in next 5 years: Transport Minister Nitin Gadkari

  Thiruvananthapuram: India aims to elevate its road infrastructure to match that of the US within the next five years, said Minister of...

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  Sugar output slips 11% in Oct-Dec, on late start of mills in Maha & Karnataka

  India’s sugar production in the current marketing year till December 15 fell to 74.05 lakh tonnes as against 82.95 lakh tonnes recorded...

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  Govt issues revised order to allow use of sugarcane juice for making ethanol in 2023-24

  New Delhi: The food ministry has issued a fresh order reversing ban on the use of sugarcane juice formaking ethanol and allowed...