Engineering collegeFrustrated by govt’s apathy towards their demands of an engineering college, the farmers of Burhanpur, pooled money for 10 years & finally have an engineering college of their own.BHOPAL: Frustrated by government’s apathy towards their demands of an engineering college, the farmers of Burhanpur, a small district adjoining Maharashtra, refused to give up:...
Continue readingTag: sugar mill
Mackay Sugar secures 30pc in Tully takeover
DISTRIBUTOR and marketer Queensland Sugar has decided to sell its 19.9 per cent stake in Tully Sugar to takeover contender Mackay Sugar for $43 a share, sparking a fresh bidding war from two other interested parties, US giant Bunge and China’s state-owned Cofco. The news came as Cofco announced the Foreign Investment Review Board...
Continue readingMackay Sugar formally lodges takeover offer for Tully Sugar
MACKAY Sugar has formally lodged its $41 a share bid for Tully Sugar, even though US-based agribusiness giant Bunge and China’s state-owned Cofco have already revised their bids higher to $43 a share valuing Tully at $132.9 million. Mackay’s bid is backed by French-based commodity trader Louis Dreyfus, which has agreed to provide debt...
Continue readingSupport North Shore Agriculture and Help Keep it Country! Experience the 2011 – Fourth Annual Taste of Waialua
On Saturday, April 23, 2011 from 8:30 am – 5 pm, Island X Hawaii / Old Sugar Mill Brand Coffee & Chocolate will host a celebration of North Shore grown coffee, cacao, produce, food, art, film, music, and surf industry manufacturing at an open house exhibition in the Old Sugar Mill, Waialua. The North...
Continue readingHaina sawmill project is pau
A judge has ruled in favor of a lender in a foreclosure suit on a former Pacific Northwest logger who attempted to turn the former Haina sugar mill in Honokaa into a sawmill. Hilo Circuit Judge Glenn Hara entered judgment Dec. 8 against Haina Properties LLC and Robert J. Marr, known as “Barefoot Bob.”...
Continue readingStream study pushes for more water restoration – The Maui News
WAILUKU – Nearly six months after recommending that Hawaiian Commercial & Sugar Co. restore water to only one of 19 streams in East Maui, staffers for the state Commission on Water Resource Management have changed their minds – at the direction of balance-seeking commissioners in the heated controversy. If commissioners follow the advice signed...
Continue readingFunding could define new future in energy for HC&S – The Maui News
PUUNENE – Within five years, Hawaiian Commercial & Sugar Co. may be out of the sugar business and use its 37,000 acres on Maui to grow much-desired biofuels, company, state and federal officials, announced Wednesday afternoon. The announcement came with the personal endorsement of senior Hawaii U.S. Sen. Daniel Inouye, who made a pledge...
Continue readingHC&S studying future as biofuels plantation – The Maui News
By Chris Hamilton POSTED: April 7, 2010 PUUNENE — Within the next five years to 10 years, Hawaii’s last sugar producer, Hawaiian Commercial & Sugar Co. could be out of the topsy-turvy granulated sugar business and making much-desired biofuels, company, federal and state officials announced Wednesday afternoon. The U.S. Department of Energy, though the...
Continue reading