Maharashtra sugarcane farmers intensify protests over cane prices, ethanol procurement cuts, drought and early crushing, demanding higher sugar MSP and financial relief. THE TRIBUNE, India’s oldest, daily English-language newspaper, was first published on February 2, 1881, in Lahore (now in Pakistan), and save for 40 days in the immediate aftermath of Partition,. Rising cultivation costs and stagnant sugar prices have strained the sector, prompting demands to raise the minimum selling price.