Farmers block tractors to demand better price for sugarcane
Farmers blocked tractors and deflated tyres of another set of such vehicles during separate protests held to demand higher purchase price for sugarcane. A group of farmers in Kolhapur halted tractors supplying harvested sugarcane to a mill, while another group of cultivators deflated tyres of tractors in Solapur district. Both incidents took place on Sunday night. ...
CACP proposes Rs 20 per quintal hike in sugarcane FRP for next season
sugarcane at Rs 275 per quintal for next season, a government official said. The fair and remunerative price (FRP), the minimum price sugar mills have to pay to farmers, has been fixed at Rs 255 per quintal for the 2017-18 season that starts from this month. "For the next 2018-19 season, the CACP has proposed Rs 275 per quintal FRP for sugarcane factoring (in) cost of production, transportation and crop...
3 pc hike in state advisory price of sugarcane in UP
The Uttar Pradesh government has hiked state advisory price (SAP) of sugarcane for 2017-18 crushing season by about 3 per cent. "The decision was taken by Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath. The government has increased SAP by Rs 10 per quintal for different varieties of the crop," an official spokesman said here today. ...
Sugar prices settle quiet on some support
Sugar prices settled quiet at the wholesale market in the national capital today with prices by and large after hovering both ends on little bouts buying and selling, pegged same on last levels. Marketmen said small buying support along with adequate stocks managed to kept sweetener prices unaltered. ...
A political battle on rates is slowly simmering in sugarcane heartland
The politics of sugarcane price fixation is slowly rearing up its ugly head as the key sugar producing states of Maharashtra and Uttar Pradesh gear up for the production season in November. Uttar Pradesh and Maharashtra, the largest and second largest producers of sugar respectively, will begin their 2017-18 crushing season in November. ...
Sugar prices to decline as UP, Maharashtra begin cane crushing
Sugar prices are likely to decline by five per cent with the arrival of new-season output. Crushing of new-season cane is scheduled to begin this week, with dozens of mills in Uttar Pradesh starting the procuring from farmers. The first of this sugar is scheduled to hit the market by the end of this month. ...
Sugar mill gate prices ease on ample stocks, selective buying
Sugar mill gate prices receded by Rs 10 per quintal at the wholesale market in the national capital today following ample stocks position on sustained arrivals from mills amid selective buying. However, sugar spot prices enquired at overnight closing levels on sporadic buying support. Marketmen said mounting of stocks on steady inflow of supplies from mills coupled with need base buying by stockist and bulk consumers, mainly brought down the...
Dozen-odd sugar mills begin crushing so far: Official
More than a dozen mills in key sugar producing states like Uttar Pradesh have started crushing operations this year, a Food Ministry official said today. The government has projected higher sugar output at around 25 million tonnes for the current 2017-18 season (October-September), as against 20.3 million tonnes in the last year. "Some mills have commenced crushing operations in Uttar Pradesh, Karnataka and Tamil Nadu. It will pick up in...
Haryana hikes sugarcane SAP by Rs 10/quintal
Haryana Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar today announced a hike of Rs 10 per quintal in the State Advisory Price (SAP) of sugarcane. The state government is already paying the highest price of sugarcane to the farmers. Speaking on the concluding day of the winter session of the state assembly, the chief minister said in view of the beginning of the wheat sowing season, supply of electricity for agriculture sector...
Cane crushing in Haryana to start from Nov 1
All cooperative sugar mills in Haryana would start sugarcane crushing from November 1, which is 21 days ahead of the current crushing season, state Agriculture Minister O P Dhankar said today. The capacity of sugar mills in Karnal, Panipat and Sonipat would be raised to 3,500 tonnes, 5,000 tonnes and 2,200 tonnes per day from the existing 2,200 tonnes, 1,800 tonnes and 1,600 tonnes, respectively....