Domestic sugar production estimates for sugar year SY2020 are revised downwards by 7.8% to 26 million tonnes from the earlier preliminary estimate of 28.2 million tonnes (given by ISMA in July 2019). This along with the expected exports of 3.5 million tonnes (as against the government’s target of 6 million tonnes) in SY2020 is likely […]
India’s sugar production declined 64 per cent to 4.85 lakh tonnes till November 15 in the current marketing year that started last month as mills in Maharashtra have not yet begun their operations, industry body ISMA said. Sugar marketing year runs from October to September. Maharashtra is set to start its crushing season from 22 […]
India’s 2019-20 sugar production is set to fall by 19 per cent over previous year, industry body Indian Sugar Mills Association (ISMA) said in its first estimate of sugar production for 2019-20. India is expected to produce 268.5 lakh tonnes sugar in 2019-20 as against 331.61 lakh tonnes produced in the previous year. A press […]
The Yogi Adityanath government of Uttar Pradesh (UP) has hiked the reserved quota of molasses for country liquor makers to 18 per cent from the existing 16 per cent. The previous hike in the reserved quota was effected recently early September this year, from 12.5 per cent to 16. The additional 2 per cent hike thus amounts to a […]
Pwer major Tata Power has decided to float a dedicated micro-grid arm to tap the renewable opportunity in the rural India in partnership with the Rockefeller Foundation. The Rockefeller Foundation recently initiated the Global Commission to End Energy Poverty (GCEEP) programme to fast-track sustainable power solutions, investments, and partnerships globally over the next decade. This […]
India’s out-year centrifugal sugar production will decline for the second consecutive year to 29.3 million tonnes, which is 14.6 per cent below the previous season, according to the latest data compiled by United States Department of Agriculture (USDA). This forecast includes 620,000 tonnes of khandsari (a local type of low-recovery sugar prepared by open-pan evaporation) […]
With more than Rs 5,500 crore cane dues still pending, the Uttar Pradesh government has lodged FIRs against three errant mills — Modi, Simbhaoli and Yadu groups — which have been faltering on cane payments. Speaking to Financial Express, UP cane commissioner and Principal Secretary, Cane Development, Sanjay Bhoosreddy said the FIRs under Section 3/7 […]
Developed by G Hemaprabha and Bakshi Ram of Coimbatore-based Sugarcane Breeding Institute, the sugarcane Co-11015 variety can increase yield to 142 tonne petr hectare from about 100 tonne currently achieved through the Co-86032 variety. According to Ram, director of the institute, though the variety has been approved by Tamil Nadu it is yet to be […]
India had its driest June in five years due to a delay in monsoon rains, the weather department said, raising fears for crops and the broader economy. Overall, rains were a third below average, although in some states, including the sugar cane growing northern state of Uttar Pradesh, they were as much as 61 per […]
India’s sugar production is estimated to decline 14 per cent to 28.2 million tonnes in the next marketing year starting October, mainly due to fall in sugarcane acreage due to less rains in states like Maharashtra and Karnataka, according to industry body, Indian Sugar Mills Association (ISMA). Sugar output is likely to be at 32.95 […]
