Urmila Owhal became a bride at 13. The sooner she married, the quicker she could earn money in the sugar-cane fields, where contractors preferred hiring couples — one person to chop, the other to load ...

PepsiCo refused to allow a shareholder resolution requesting the company look into allegations that it is buying sugar from ...

Near British Guiana’s capital of Georgetown last week, East Indian terrorists attacked sugar-cane cutters with acid bombs and rifles. In the capital, city officials decided against holding the ...

More than 200 workers have taken strike action at Jamaica’s third-largest sugar factory – which is scheduled to close in mid-March, reported Reuters news agency. Sugar cane cutters threw down their ...

The Labor Department has provided little help to Florida sugar cane cutters trying to recoup transportation costs and money deducted from their wages for a mandatory savings plan that paid them no ...

PRINCESA ISABEL, Brazil (Reuters) - Ines Ferreira dos Santos lives with four of her kids in a spacious, colorful house at the end of a dusty street. "With money from sugar cane we built this house. It ...

Pune: The sugarcane crushing season starts on November 1. With it approaching fast, Maharashtra Sugar Commissioner Sanjay Kolte has instructed all cooperative and private sugar mills to adopt strict ...

The shutdown of milling sugar in the country due to a historic sugar cane shortage is perhaps the greatest indicator of how loose regulations in the sugar sub-sector and interference by barons can ...