Sugar output up 25.37% at 17.68 million tons throughout Oct-Jan: Industry physique ISMA

Sugar mills have manufactured 25.37 per cent extra sugar at 17.68 million tonnes within the first 4 months of the present advertising season ending September this 12 months, trade physique ISMA mentioned on Tuesday.
The sugar manufacturing throughout the nation was 14.10 million tonnes within the year-ago interval, it mentioned in a press release.
Sugar gross sales are reported to be kind of much like final 12 months at round 6.75 million tonnes throughout October-December of the continuing advertising season.
For the 2020-21 advertising season, Indian Sugar Mills Association (ISMA) has pegged the nation’s whole sugar output to be 30.2 million tonnes, greater than the precise manufacturing of 27.42 million tonnes achieved within the 2019-20 advertising season.
According to ISMA, about 491 sugar mills had been in operation until January of this advertising season, as in opposition to 447 sugar mills within the year-ago interval.
Production in Uttar Pradesh — the nation’s main sugar producer — remained barely decrease at 5.44 million tonnes until January of this season, as in opposition to 5.49 million tonnes a 12 months in the past.
However, manufacturing in Maharashtra — the nation’s second-largest sugar producer — elevated considerably to six.38 million tonnes from 3.46 million tonnes within the mentioned interval.
Whereas manufacturing in Karnataka — the nation’s third-largest sugar producer — additionally elevated to three.43 million tonnes until January from 2.79 million tonnes.
Sugar manufacturing stood at 5,55,000 tonnes in Gujarat, whereas the collective output in Tamil Nadu, Andhra Pradesh and Telangana was 3,56,000 tonnes within the mentioned interval.
The remaining states — Bihar, Uttarakhand, Punjab, Haryana, Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Rajasthan, and Odisha — have collectively produced 1.51 million tonnes until January this season, the assertion mentioned.
Welcoming the price range proposals, the trade physique mentioned the rise in import obligation on denatured ethyl alcohol from 2.5 per cent to five per cent will make inward shipments costlier by round Rs 1 per litre on the present world charges.
This in flip will improve the demand for home molasses and alcohol produced by the Indian sugar trade and grain-based distilleries, giving higher returns. This will guarantee higher funds to the Indian sugarcane and grain farmers, it mentioned.
“Overall, the Indian sugar industry welcomes the various steps taken by the government to financially help the industry and the sugarcane farmers,” ISMA mentioned.
The trade physique additionally requested the federal government to increase all advantages and incentives proposed to be given to the sectors — which contribute in the direction of enhancing air high quality and rising renewable power manufacturing within the nation — to the Indian sugar trade/ distilleries that produce and provide ethanol for mixing with petrol.