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Maharashtra's sugar cane production likely to fall by 22% in 2012-13
Date: 13-06-2012The sugar production in the country is likely to fall by more than 11% in 2012-13 sugar season, as the sugar cane production in the Maharashtra state is likely to be less by 22% due to the drought like conditions also the cane availability has became the biggest challenge in front of the industry.
Due to a decline in the sugarcane area from 10.22 lakh Hectare (lakh ha) to about 8 lakh ha in 2012-13, the sugar production is likely to go down to about 80 lakh from 90 lakh. As this industry belongs to a co-operative sector, Maharashtra's co-operation department had organized a cane development workshop for the sugar mills with a forecast of cane shortage in next season.
In the 2011-12 season, 125 co-operative mills and 51 private sugar mills had participated in the crushing operations with an intent to increase the crushing capacity from 4 lakh tonne/day to 5.5 lakh tonnes. To improve sugar cane productivity, the state government is thinking of tightening the regulatory aspects by providing crushing license and every sugar mill is required to take crushing license before starting crushing operations. Further, a separate division for cane development will be set up with an objective to raise the cane productivity to 100 tonnes/ha.
Tamil Nadu is the largest sugarcane producer of 103 tonne/ha followed by Karnataka, which has a productivity of 89 tonne/ha and Maharashtra is the third largest producer of sugar cane with 81 tonnes/ha.