Sugar mills in India’s top producing state Maharashtra are set to stop cane crushing 45 to 60 days earlier than last year as heavy rain has curtailed sugar cane availability, a senior state government official told Reuters on Friday. READ:
MUMBAI — Sugar mills in India’s top producing state Maharashtra are set to stop cane crushing 45 to 60 days earlier than last year as heavy rain has curtailed sugar cane availability, a senior state government ofThe western state of Maharashtra, which accounts for more than a third of the country’s sugar output, could produce 12.8 million tons of sugar in the 2022/23 marketing year that began on Oct. 1, down from an earlier forecast of 13.
India has allowed sugar mills to export only 6.1 million tons of the sweetener in the current season and, out of that, mills have already contracted to export 5.7 million tons. A few mills in the central part of the state could start winding down operations in 15 days, and by the end of April all except three or four mills could have stopped crushing, he said.
In 2021/22 Maharashtra produced a record 13.7 million tons, higher than the initial estimate of 11.2 million tons, allowing New Delhi to export a record 11.2 million tons.
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