India’s sugar production rose by 13 per cent to 305.68 lakh tonnes in the first eight months of the current marketing year ending September, mainly due to higher output in Maharashtra, according to trade data. Sugar marketing year runs from October to September. “Sugar mills across the country have produced 305.68 lakh tonnes of sugar between October 1, 2020 […]
Sugar mills industry body ISMA has urged the government to raise the minimum selling price (MSP) of sugar from Rs 31 per kg to help millers clear cane dues to farmers. The liquidity of sugar mills has been hit due to the lower prices of the sweetener, ISMA said. Cane arrears in the country stood […]
Sugar mills across the country have together produced 299.15 lakh tonnes of sugar till 30 April this year, against 258.09 lakh tonnes produced at the same time last year, an increase of nearly 16%, industry body ISMA (Indian Sugar Mills Association) said. Releasing the production figures, ISMA said mills in Uttar Pradesh, the country’s largest […]
The cycle seems to have turned within a decade. Around 10 years ago, a wave of grape cultivation had gripped Maharashtra. Farmers ditched sugarcane and turned to grapes in huge numbers. Today, farmers are ditching grape farming and turning back to sugarcane cultivation. Fact is grape cultivation has turned costlier in the state. Grape vines require a lot of […]
Cane dues to be paid by sugar mills to farmers has risen by 19.27 per cent to Rs 22,900 crore till February of the 2020-21 season from the year-ago period, due to depressed sugar prices that have adversely affected the liquidity condition of mills, industry body ISMA said. To improve the revenue realization of mills […]
India’s sugar production rose by 20 per cent to 258.68 lakh tonnes till 15 March, 2021 on higher cane production, industry body ISMA said. The production in the corresponding period in the previous marketing year stood at 216.13 lakh tonnes. Till 28 February, 2021, the government had estimated the sugar mills production of sugar at […]
Sugar production in Uttar Pradesh, the country’s largest sugar producing state in 2019-20 season, is likely to fall by around 20 per cent year-on-year to around 100 lakh tonnes in the October 2020-September 2021 season as against 126 lakh tonnes in the last season. The dip in production is primarily due to diversion into ethanol […]
The 497 sugar mills operational in the country have together produced nearly 209 lakh tonnes of sugar till February 15 as against 170 lakh tonnes in the corresponding period last year, an increase of nearly 23 per cent. According to a press release issued by industry body Indian Sugar Mills Association (ISMA), while 183 sugar […]
Failing to create adequate tankage for ethanol supplied by sugar producing distilleries, oil marketing companies (OMCs) have started reallocating contracted quantities from several depots, which the distilleries had competed to obtain, to faraway depots in other states. This takes several days, resulting in huge financial losses to the distilleries. In a series of letters exchanged […]
India’s 491 sugar mills have together produced 176.83 lakh (17.683 million) tonnes of sugar in the first four months of the current sugar season, which started on October 1. In the corresponding period of the previous season, the mills produced 141 lakh tonnes. The output is up by around 25%, prompted primarily by an increased […]
