Govt extends deadline for sugar mills to apply for exports by 15 days

26 May 2011 Evaluate

The government has decided to extend the deadline for sugar mills to apply for permits to export sugar under the open general license scheme (OGL) by 15 days. Hence, for those mills exporting their own sugar, the new deadline will be June 2 for applying for permit to Food Ministry; while deadlines for factories sourcing sugar from third party is June 17. Earlier, for mills exporting their own sugar, the food ministry had set the May 18 deadline and for factories sourcing sugar from third party, the deadline was June 2. However, the government has decided not to give any further extensions on this front.

Meanwhile, the Food Ministry on April 19 had notified exports of 5 lakh tonne of sugar under Open General License (OGL), out of which 51,500 tonne were reserved for neighboring countries and the quota of 4,48,500 tonne was allocated to mills based on the average production for three years. The permission was given to 83 mills.

The government had come to the decision of allowing sugar exports under OGL as the domestic sugar production is expected to outstrip demand after a gap of two years. Further, the retail prices of sugar have also declined sharply in the national capital to Rs 30-32 per kg from nearly Rs 50 per kg in January last year.

The sugar production of India - the world’s second largest producer after Brazil is estimated to rise to 24.5 million tonne (MT) in the 2010-11 sugar year (October-September) from 19 MT in the previous year; while the country’s annual demand is pegged at 22 MT.

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