Since the sugarcane crop has been hampered by excessive rainfall, primarily in Maharashtra and Karnataka, the Indian Sugar Mills Association (ISMA) has revised lower the country’s production of the commodity to 34 million tonnes (mt) for the current season (October 2022 September 2023). The projection by ISMA, an association of private sugar mills, is 5%…
In its first estimate of sugar production for 2022–23, which was just announced, the private trade group All India Sugar Traders Association (AISTA) estimated India’s sugar production at 34.5 million tonnes, a decrease of 3.63% from the 35.8 million tonnes produced in the prior year. Maharashtra will produce 12.4 million tonnes of sugar this season,…
Farmer payments totaling 82% of the fair and remunerative price (FRP) have been made by the 189 sugar mills currently processing sugarcane through September 2023. By December 19, these mills had crushed 236.69 lakh tonnes (lt) of sugarcane, according to information provided by the Maharashtra Sugar Commissioner office, and they still owed FRP of $7,407.20…
The Central government will likely cut the sugar export quota by 29% for the new marketing year that started on October 1 to keep domestic supplies steady It could cap sugar exports at just eight million tonnes in 2022-23, compared with estimated despatches of 11.2 million tonnes in the recently concluded marketing year. To manage…
The Indian Sugar Mills Association (ISMA) has urged the government to swiftly implement the sugar export strategy, claiming that the sugar selling season of 2022–2023 will require at least eight million tonnes of exports. Vivek Pittie, Director of Harinagar Mills in Mumbai and a member of ISMA, stated that the industry group thinks the government…
India’s sugar exports are likely to decline to around 8 million tonnes (MT) in the next season starting October, compared with a record shipment of around 11.2 MT worth $4.6 billion in 2021-22. The drop is assigned to lower carry-forward stocks at the start of the season. Sugar prices in the global markets are firm…
The central government has approved an additional 1.2 million tonnes (MT) of sugar exports for the current season in expectation of higher domestic production in the next season. This approval is in addition to around 10 MT of sugar already exported in the current season (October 2021-September 2022). The projected sugar exports in excess of…
Ahead of the meeting of the committee of secretaries, the sugar industry has sought the release of 10 lakh tonnes (lt) of additional export quota to mills and bringing back export under the “free” category from next season starting October 1. A sizeable quantity is likely to be cleared even if the government does not…
