Paying the price of sugar crisis: Sugar output slumps by 21% to 86 lakh tonnes

New Delhi: India's sugar production fell by 21% to 85.5 lakh tonnes till 15 January of the current marketing year 2013–14 (1 October–30 September) on account of delay in crushing operations because of the severe impasse over pricing of sugarcane between UP millers and government, according to industry data.

                                 

‘Sugar production in the country is in full swing. Till 15 January 2014, the country has produced 85.50 lakh tonnes of sugar with 484 mills under crushing operations’, Indian Sugar Mills Association (ISMA) said in a statement. Sugar output stood at 108 lakh tonnes for the same period a year ago.Read more