Topic: sugar industry
WTO Dispute Settlement Panel to review India’s Sugar Subsidy
The World Trade Organisation (WTO) has announced setting up of dispute settlement panel to review India’s sugar subsidy as requested by Brazil, Australia and Guatemala. What are the Objections...
Government notifies ethanol-making directly from sugarcane juice, B-molasses
Union Food Ministry has notified decision to allow sugar mills to manufacture ethanol directly from sugarcane juice or an intermediate product called B-molasses. In this regard, Sugarcane Control...
Rs. 8500 Crore Bailout Package for Sugar Industry Approved
The Union Cabinet chaired by Prime Minister has approved a Rs. 8500 Crore bailout package for the distressed sugar industry in the country. Background India is world’s second...
CCEA approves financial assistance to sugar mills for clearing cane dues of farmers
The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs (CCEA) has approved proposal to provide financial assistance of Rs. 5.50 per quintal of cane crushed in sugar season 2017-18. It will...
PM Narendra Modi inaugurates International Conference on sugarcane value chain
Prime Minister Narendra Modi inaugurated the International Conference and Exhibition on Sugarcane Value Chain – Vision 2025 Sugar in Pune, Maharashtra. The 3 days conference has been organised...
President gives assent to The Sugar Cess (Amendment) Bill, 2015
President Pranab Mukherjee has given assent to the Sugar Cess (Amendment) Bill, 2015 to raise the ceiling of a cess as an excise duty on the production of...What is the arrears problem in Sugar Industry of India?
It has been more than two years since April 2013, when the union government decided to lift some control on the sugar industry. Via this government scrapped the...Rangarajan Committee and Partial Decontrol of Sugar
There has been a long pending demand for complete decontrol of the sugar industry. But successive central governments have hesitated to decontrol sugar. The prime reasons can be...
