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India exports 7.23 million tone sugar in 2020-21: AISTA

06 Oct 2021 Evaluate

Trade body the All India Sugar Trade Association (AISTA) has said that sugar mills exported an estimated record 7.23 million tonne in the 2020-21 marketing year that ended September 30, with maximum shipments to Indonesia. India is the world's second-largest producer of sugar after Brazil.

Of the total shipment, 7.06 million tonne of sugar has been exported, while about 1,66,335 tonne is under loading in the 2020-21 marketing year (October to September). According to the AISTA, about 6 million tonne of sugar was exported with government subsidy and 7.85 lakh tonne without subsidy in the 2020-21 marketing year.

Maximum exports were undertaken to Indonesia at 1.82 million tonne, followed by Afghanistan (6,69,525 tonne), UAE (5,24,064 tonne) and Somalia (4,11,944 tonne) in 2020-21. In the new marketing year 2021-22, export deals of about 15 lakh tonne have taken place so far.