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ANALYTICAL STUDY: THE PROBLEM OF CO-OPERATIVE SUGAR FACTORIES IN MAHARASHTRA STATE
Author Name :
Jadhav Pravin Tulshidas
Publisher :
Ashok Yakkaldevi
Article Series No. :
ISRJ-279
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Abstract :
Maharashtra state comes into existence on 1st May 1960. It lies in tropical belt. A British company establishes the factory providing sugar directly from sugarcane in 1919 at Haregaon in Ahmednagar district. In 1930 Walchand ‘group erected a sugar factory’ in Walchandnagar in Pune district. In 1932 Government of India granted fiscal protection to sugar industry. The very next is year is that in 1933 the sugar factories at Phaltan, Kolhapur and Rawalgaon come into existence. In 1934 three more sugar factory were established at Belwandi, Malinagar and Tilaknagar. In 1939 two factories at Sakharwadi and Shripur were created and 1941 two more at Changdeonagar and Laxmiwadi came up, making the total number of sugar factories 12 in the region. They all were in the Private sector.
Keywords :
  • co-operative sugar factories
  • price crash of sugarcane
  • privatization
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