India’s Oct-Jan sugar output jumps 5.64%

The country’s sugar production is estimated to have increased by 5.64 per cent to 18.70 million tonnes during the October-January period of the ongoing marketing year 2021-22 from over the year-ago period, industry body ISMA said on Thursday.

Sugar mills had manufactured 17.70 million tonnes of sugar in the corresponding period of the previous 2020-21 marketing year (October-September), it said.

According to the Indian Sugar Mills Association (ISMA), sugar production in Uttar Pradesh (the country’s top sugar producing state) remained lower at 5.03 million tonnes during the October-January period of this marketing year, compared with 5.44 million tonnes in the year-ago period.

However, sugar production in Maharashtra, the country’s second-largest producing state, rose to 7.29 million tonnes from 6.38 million tonnes. That of Karnataka, the country’s third-largest producing state, rose to 3.87 million tonnes from 3.45 million tonnes in the said period.

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