Karnataka’s Athani sugarcane growers are increasingly supplying Maharashtra mills in Sangli and Kolhapur, attracted by higher payments and timely settlements. Maharashtra factories...
Sugar factories in Karnataka’s Belagavi district are offering higher, sugar-price-linked cane payments to prevent farmers from diverting produce to Maharashtra. Growers could...
Farmers in Maharashtra’s Latur district demanded uniform sugarcane pricing, including the ₹4,200-per-tonne rate offered in western Maharashtra, a ₹2 lakh incentive for...
Maharashtra’s sugar mills crushed 156.37 lakh tonnes of sugarcane and produced 130.57 lakh quintals of sugar by November 8, with 140 mills...
India’s sugar production reached 12.85 lakh tonnes by November 5, 2026, compared with 3.20 lakh tonnes last year, as 184 mills commenced...
Wheat prices declined by ₹59–344 per quintal across major producing states, except Maharashtra, during FCI’s November 4 e-auction. The government doubled its...
Excessive monsoon rainfall has delayed sugarcane crushing in western Uttar Pradesh, with recovery in Bijnor falling around 1.5 percentage points year-on-year. Barkatpur...
Raju Shetti called off the three-day farmers’ blockade in Kolhapur after sugar mill owners agreed to an effective sugarcane payment of ₹4,200...
GIZ, PepsiCo India and Bayer’s Crop Science Division have launched HARVEST, a three-year public-private partnership to promote regenerative agriculture and climate resilience...