Blame it on lower crushing and recovery levels in key producing states that the country’s sugar output dropped by 4.5% to 25.14 million tonnes in 2012-13 marketing year that ended last month as against 26.34 million tonnes of sugar output in the previous marketing year. However, despite the drop, the production was sufficient to meet the local demand, which increased by 3.6% to 22.8 million tonnes in the same period.
Further, data from Indian Sugar Mills Association (ISMA) showed that 2.5% less sugarcane was crushed in the 2012-13 crop season, while the all-India average recovery rate stood at 10.03% compared with 10.25% in the previous year.
Maharashtra, the country's largest sugar producing states, produced 7.99 million tonnes of sugar after crushing 70.1 million tonnes of sugarcane. While, sugar production dipped by 11% than last year, sugar crushing for the season was 98% lower. This dip was mainly on account of lower sugar recovery in 2012-13 at about 11.41%.
However, Uttar Pradesh produced 7.4 million tonnes of sugar and crushed 81.5 million tonnes of sugarcane, which was 7.3% more sugar than last year and 6% more than the sugarcane crushing last year respectively. Better sugar recovery than last year's of 9.07%, helped in giving slightly more sugar production. Notably, Maharashtra and Uttar Pradesh, together account for about 80% of the country's sugar production. Further, sugar production during 2012-13 marketing year stood at 3.46 million tonnes in Karnataka, 1.96 million tonnes in Tamil Nadu and 0.99 million tonnes in Andhra Pradesh.
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