Increased Sugarcane Prices a Double Blow for the Sugar Industry As this is an election year, the government must please farmers, the backbone of the Indian economy. As it promised in the election manifesto and again in the budget speech to guarantee them at least a 50 percent profit above the cost of production, the government of India (GOI) increased the Fair and Remunerative Price (FRP) for sugarcane by Rs.200 ($2.89)/MT to Rs.2,750 ($39.85)/MT, an increase of 7.84 percent. Also, the price is set at 77.41 percent above sugarcane’s cost of production and is applicable when the sugar recovery is 10 percent.( Farmers receive a lower price if the recovery is less and a higher price if it is above 10 percent.) Until last year, the FRP w...
Weather concerns and the impacts of the war in Iran helped push wheat and corn to sharp gains Tuesday, with both markets blowing past key technical resistance levels. The weather is now coupled with geopolitical tensions that look increasingly hard to resolve, which is giving funds the perfect...
Congress is moving forward with its FY 2027 spending bills, while also still working to address FY 2026 funding for the Department of Homeland Security, which is still in a shutdown. The House Agriculture-FDA Appropriations Subcommittee marked up and passed its FY 2027 bill. The House bill prov...
Mediterranean/Middle East/North Africa/Africa – MEA Region Tunisian researchers have been able to fully sequence the genomes of two local durum wheat types that have been grown in Tunisia for generations. They say that this “could be the key to developing more climate-resistant duru...
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