TAD NewsDesk, New Delhi: Sugar Plantation in India is the second largest producer of sweetener in the country. The production has increased three folds and has reached an optimum of 14.10 lakh tonnes in 2020-21. In the previous year, the production was marked at 4.84 lakh tonnes in the same season.

The reasons for this rise in yield are mainly twofold according to ISMA:

  • Better crop output for the year
  • Timely commencement of the crushing operation

India is going to have another year with a surplus of sugar production. It is waiting to hear from the government on the policy decisions of exports and buffer stock creation with the aid of subsidy.

Indian Sugar Mills Association (ISMA) stated that the good amount of rainfall and sufficient water availability in reservoirs in Maharashtra and Karnataka contributed to higher cane acreage.

As many as 271 sugar mills were in operation till November 15 of the current season against 127 in the year-ago period.

Maharashtra which is the second largest sugar producing state has produced 5.65 lakh tonnes of sugar so far this season.

Some of the other state’s sugar production till November 15 :
  • 80,000 tonne in Gujarat
  • 3.40 lakh tonnes in Karnataka
  • Uttarakhand, Bihar, Haryana, Madhya Pradesh, Tamil Nadu, Andhra Pradesh and Telangana together produced 40,000 tonnes of sugar
In the 2020-21 season, oil marketing companies (OMCs) have allocated about 262.27 crore litres against offers received for about 322.57 crore litres of ethanol from sugar mills.

Uttar Pradesh, the country’s leading sugar producing state manufactured 3.85 lakh tonnes of sugar till November 15.