India exports around 37 lakh tonnes sugar in 2018-19 marketing year

16 Dec 2019 Evaluate

In order to clear the surplus stock, the government has said that India exported around 37 lakh tonnes sugar in the 2018-19 marketing year ended September (October 2018 to September 2019). The country exported sugar. Union Minister Danve Raosaheb Dadarao has said sugar mills were advised to export sugar as per their MIEQ (Minimum Indicative Export Quota) allocation.

With a view to evacuate surplus sugar from the country, mill-wise MIEQ of 50 lakh tonnes of sugar for export in the 2018-19 sugar season was fixed. The Minister said against the allocated quantity for 2018-19, about 37 lakh tonnes has been exported. He also said there was no compulsion on the mills to export sugar and they were free to export the commodity as per their commercial decision.

In view of the huge carryover stock of sugar and estimates of surplus output in the current sugar season, the government has allocated mill-wise Maximum Admissible Export Quantity (MAEQ) of 60 lakh tonnes of the sweetener to the mills for export in 2019-20. Industry body ISMA recently said sugar production fell 54% during October-November to 18.85 lakh tonnes due to sharp decline in output in Maharashtra where cane crushing started late.

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