Kolhapur: A newborn leopard cub was charred to death in a sugar cane farm fire in Nagaon village of Kolhapur's Hatkanangale ...

Harvesting sugar cane by cutting is labour-intensive, causing many farmers to resort to burning. Burning worsens the air quality in the cool season, leading to high levels of PM2.5.

Before the sugar cane can be crushed in the mill ... 2, H being a steel tube having inclined cutting edges, i, coming to a point at h. A series of these are placed on a board, F, in the position ...

Other major complaint by the farmers was the sugar factories fixing higher rate of wastage while cutting cane. “While the permitted rate of wastage is 4% under Sugar Control Act, the factories ...