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.

While the true extent of damage won't be known for a few weeks, promising signs point to a healthy sugar cane harvest season.

Local authorities in Dharashiv district helped 19 sugar cane cutters from Uttar Pradesh and their 15 children leave for the.

Since October 1, Glades residents have once again been smothered in the smoke and ash that will plague us through the entirety of the six-to-eight-month sugar cane pre-harvest burn season.

Tlale added that in irrigated areas where farmers rely on diesel-powered pumps for irrigation, operating costs will also rise ...

As HC&S opens its 144th and final sugar harvest, decades of sugar cane knowledge are being boiled down into the last efforts of an industry that will disappear from Maui’s fields in a matter of ...

For the best experience, please enable JavaScript in your browser settings. Sugarcane trucks loaded with sugarcane from Nyando sugar belt camping outside West Kenya's ...

Kolhapur: Sugar cane harvest season is in full swing in the state. Amid the brisk work, there is a tinge of worry. District collectors across Maharashtra recently appealed to farmers and labourers ...

Products such as rum and refined sugar were produced in plantation on Caribbean islands like Antigua. The refineries were very hot and the work turning sugar cane into valuable finished goods was ...