The country’s sugar mills have produced 47.21 lakh tonnes of sugar till November 30, around 4.19 lakh tonnes higher than last season’s production for the corresponding period. Last year, sugar mills had produced 43.02 lakh tonnes at same time. The Indian Sugar Mills Association (ISMA) has attributed the higher production to an early start of […]
Indian rice exports could touch 20 million tonnes for the season, given that rice production is expected to cross 100 million tonnes during the kharif season of 2021-22, exporters have said. “Kharif rice production has already been harvested November onwards and therefore, there is no issue of any major damage to the crop. Around 9 […]
The Government has said that the Foreign direct investment (FDI) in the food processing sector has declined by 54 per cent to Rs 2,934.12 crore in 2020-21 as compared to the previous year. In a written reply to the Rajya Sabha the minister of state for food processing industries, Prahlad Singh Patel informed that the […]
Union Steel Minister Ram Chandra Prasad Singh has met a delegation of Mongolian Parliamentary and discussed the possibility of importing good-quality coking coal from the land-locked nation. The Mongolian Parliamentary Delegation is on a seven-day visit to India from November 30, 2021, on the invitation of the Parliament of India, the Ministry of Steel said […]
The Maharashtra State Electricity Distribution Company (MSEDCL) has issued separate tenders to procure 342 megawatts (MW) of energy from grid-connected intrastate wind projects and 300 MW from interstate and intrastate wind projects. The projects will be selected through e-bidding followed by an e-reverse auction process. The last date to submit online bids is December 16, […]
Independent Power Producers (IPPs) have demanded stricter regulations to make it more difficult for the defaulting states to procure electricity from other sources when power plants cut supplies. The demand is on the back of pending dues by state-run electricity distribution companies (discoms). The overdues by discoms — pending receivables of 45 days or more […]
Cargill India is set to invest $35 million in acquiring and upgrading an edible oil refinery in Nellore in Andhra Pradesh. The facility is expected to be fully operational by May 2022 and will significantly increase its edible oil production capacity and footprint in southern India. The move is also expected to strengthen its existing […]
Tata Steel will focus on augmenting iron ore production from 30 million tonne per annum (mtpa) to 45 mtpa in the next five years, a company official said. The total iron ore production from the steelmakers’ captive mines in Noamundi in Jharkhand and in Katamati, Joda and Khondbond blocks in Odisha, is about 30 mtpa. […]
Green energy producer ReNew Power, and engineering conglomerate Larsen & Toubro have announced that they will jointly own, develop, execute and operate green hydrogen projects. “Under this agreement, L&T and ReNew will jointly develop, own, execute and operate green hydrogen projects in India,” said a joint statement issued by both companies. Green hydrogen produced by […]
Tata Power Solar Systems Limited (Tata Power Solar), an integrated solar company and a wholly-owned subsidiary of Tata Power, has received a Letter of Award (LoA) from Solar Energy Corporation of India (SECI) to build a 100 megawatt (MW) EPC solar project along with 120 megawatt-hours (MWh) utility-scale battery energy storage system (BESS). The total […]
