Industry body, Indian Sugar Mills Association (ISMA) has said that sugar production of India slipped by 15% to 1.16 million tonnes (MT) till November 15, 2018 of the current marketing year (October 2018-September 2019), as compared to 1.37 MT as on November 15, 2017. The output showed a fall as many mills have not yet started crushing operation in this season.
As on November 15, 2018, 238 sugar mills were already crushing sugarcane, as compared to 349 sugar mills which were crushing sugarcane last year on November 15, 2017. Due to late start of crushing this year, sugar mills in Uttar Pradesh have produced 1.76 lakh tonnes of sugar till November 15, 2018 as against 5.67 lakh tonnes produced till November 15 last year. Sugar production in Karnataka also declined to 1.85 lakh tonnes as compared to 3.71 lakh tonnes. However, in Maharashtra sugar output rose to 6.31 lakh tonnes from 3.26 lakh tonnes during the period under review.
Fall in production augurs well for mills as they have an opening stock of over 10 MT. The annual domestic demand is pegged at 26 MT. besides, sugar mills have been asked to mandatorily export 5 MT in the current marketing year to liquidate surplus stocks and clear cane arrears to farmers. Meanwhile, ISMA had last month forecast that the production in the current 2018-19 marketing may decline to 31.5 MT from record 32.5 MT in the previous year.
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