KATHMANDU, June 19: Sugar mills that have been delaying payment to sugarcane producers are next in line to face action from Home Minister Ram Bahadur Thapa, according to the ministry.

MAHOTTARI, May 23: Sugarcane producers have padlocked Everest Sugar and Chemical Industries, one of the largest sugar mills of the country, after the mill failed to settle their outstanding payments.

TIKAPUR, March 11: There were days when rice milled in Kailali district used to reach all over the country as well as be exported to India.

TIKAPUR, March 9: There were days when rice milled in Kailali district used to reach all over the country as well as be exported to India.

RAUTAHAT, Feb 17: Shree Ram Sugar Mills located at Garuda, Rautahat has an outstanding payment of Rs 400 million toward the farmers, which has piled up for the past four years.

DAMAK, Dec 23: About one and a half kattha of land belonging to Biratnagar Jute Mill has been encroached in Damak of Jhapa district.

SARLAHI, Dec 21: Local farmers have started taking sugarcane to Indu Shankar Sugar Industry of Hariban, Sarlahi, as the crushing season begins.

RAUTAHAT, Dec 21: Sugarcane farmers in Rautahat are facing a big trouble as the government has not fixed minimum support price of this cash crop yet.

BIRATNAGAR, Nov 4: Radha Krishna Chimariya, an industrialist from Calcutta, India used to run a large jute mill at Katihar city near Nepal-India border. Haridwari Malla used to work as a manager of the mill. The area, being near the Koshi River, was good for jute farming. Malla took a go-down on lease in Biratnagar, bordering town of Nepal.

BIRATNAGAR, Oct 31: It has been revealed that two government employees were involved in opaque share ownership transfer in Biratnagar Jute Mills Limited which has made the government a minority shareholder in the state-owned jute company.

KATHMANDU, Sept 12: Two sugar mills have signed initial agreements with the government to produce electricity. If it goes as planned, Indu Shankar Chini Udyoug Ltd will generate three megawatts of electricity from December by rotating an additional turbine by the steam of existing boiler. The mills use bagasse, a residue of sugar cane crushing, to heat the boiler.

KATHMANDU, September 11: The government has forwarded power purchase process for purchasing electricity generated from two sugar mills.

KAPILVASTU, Dec 26: Farmers in Kapilvastu are in big trouble as sugar mills are purchasing sugarcane on credit, stating that the government has yet to fix price of canes.

GAUSHALA, Dec 18: The Sugarcane Production Association, Mahottari has been on strike at the Everest Sugar Mill, Ramnagar since Saturday with a six - point demand.