ABOUT the middle of the nineteenth century nine-tenths of the world's sugar was obtained from the sugar cane. At the close of the century the proportion had fallen to about one-half, and the ...
As cane is not at its most productive in temperate ... It is at this price that you eat sugar in Europe.” And yet there was no stopping the boom. Sugar was the oil of its day.
On average, Indians eat around 19kg ... in the transportation of cane. The government has taken an interventionist approach, using subsidies to help sell Indian sugar overseas, an approach that ...
When Prime Minister Narendra Modi held a recent election meeting in the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh, he was compelled to make a promise relating to sugar, a diet staple. Farmers who ...