Sugar output doubles to 42.9 lakh tonne

NEW DELHI: 16/10/2013: A sugar dealer arranging the sweetener at his shop in khari baoli, a wholesale market in Delhi. Sugar prices continue to be in the bearish phase on sluggish demand amidst ample supplies. The millers are under pressure to clear their inventory ahead of the new crushing season as the opening stocks at the start of new sugar year starting October are estimated at 8.5 million tonnes in New Delhi, on October 16, 2013. Photo: Kamal Narang

Sugar output doubles to 43 lakh tonne: ISMA

Sugar output increased by over twofold with 408 mills producing 42.9 lakh tonne in October and November, the first two months of the current sugar season 2020-21. During the first two months of the 2019-2020 season, 309 mills produced 20.72 lakh tonne, the Indian Sugar Mills Association (ISMA) said in a statement.

The production trend in the current season, so far, appears to be similar to the 2018-2019 sugar season when 418 sugar mills produced 40.69 lakh tonnes of sugar as on November 30, 2018.