Subsidy for Sugarcane Growers Unable to pay for sugarcane deliveries because of high input costs and low sugar prices, the sugar industry approached the government for an intervention. The arrears owed to farmers had reached $2.98 billion at the end of March 2018, and the government of India (GOI) finally decided to offer them a subsidy of Rs.55/MT ($0.82/MT) for the stocks sold to the mills. It will be issued to farmers’ accounts directly, and the mills will cover the difference. However, the subsidy is only 7.68 percent or $229 million of the total due.
For the 2017/18 sugar season, GOI’s set price for sugarcane is Rs.2,550/MT ($38/MT), while Uttar Pradesh raised the rate to Rs.3,150/MT ($47/MT). Since the season started,...
A microlith is a small stone tool usually made of flint or chert and typically several centimeters in length and half a centimetre wide. They were made by humans from at least the Upper Paleolithic, across Africa, Europe, Asia and Australia. The microliths were used in spear points and arrowhea...
Fabiana is a genus of flowering plants in the nightshade family, native to dry slopes in western South America.[1] They are evergreen shrubs or subshrubs,[1] with needle-like leaves and profuse tiny tubular flowers in summer. The common name is false heath because the leaves superficially resem...
The Alaska marmot (Marmota broweri), also known as the Brooks Range marmot[3] or the Brower's marmot,[4] is a species of rodent in the family Sciuridae. Once considered to be the same species as the hoary marmot, it is now known to be unique. Alaska marmots are found in the scree slopes of the...
