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India's sugar export may touch 85 lakh tonne this year, says ISMA

India's sugar export may touch 85 lakh tonne in the ongoing 2021-22 marketing year ending September, as per the estimates of global trade houses, industry body ISMA said on Monday.

While the country has contracted 72 lakh tonne of sugar export, the physical exports have been around 56-57 lakh tonne till March-end this year, it said.

Sugar marketing year runs from October to September. Crushing operation is still on as 366 mills were operating till March-end, while 152 mills had stopped the crushing.

Releasing the latest sugar production figures, Indian Sugar Mills Association (ISMA) said: "News from the international trade houses indicate that global market is expecting 85 lakh tonne of sugar exports from India, in the current season."

According to the industry body, sugar production reached 309.87 lakh tonne till March of the ongoing 2021-22 marketing year, higher than 278.71 lakh tonne in the year-ago period.

Maharashtra, Uttar Pradesh and Karnataka are the top three sugar producing states in the country.

As per the ISMA data, sugar production in Maharasthra rose to 118.81 lakh tonne till March from 100.47 lakh tonne in the year-ago period.

In Uttar Pradesh, sugar production remained lower at 87.50 lakh tonne till March this year compared with 93.71 lakh tonne in the year-ago period.

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At 268 lakh tonnes, sugar production this year is higher than projected: ISMA

At 268 lakh tonnes, sugar production this year is higher than projected: ISMA

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Diversion of sugarcane from jaggery, khandsari units due to lockdown, have contributed to higher output

Sugar mills across the country have produced 268.21 lakh tonnes (LT) of sugar till May 31, nearly 18 per cent lower than the production in the corresponding period in the previous sugar season, said Indian Sugar Mills’ Association (ISMA) on Tuesday.

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Sugar: output turns sour, may hit three years low as rains ravage crops

Sugar generation could slide to between 26 million tons to 26.5 million tons in 2019-20, contrasted and 33.1 million tons every year sooner

MARKETS NEWS: Sugar yield in India, one of the world's greatest makers, may hit a three-year low this season in the wake of flooding harmed crops in zones that had before gotten away dry spells. 

Creation in the nation, which competes with Brazil as the No. 1 cultivator, may slide to 26.85 million metric tons in the year that started on Oct. 1, down from a prior gauge of 28.2 million tons, the Indian Sugar Mills Association said in an announcement on Tuesday. 

The nation delivered a record 33.2 million tons in 2018-19, it said. The slide underway could lessen the country's sugar reserves, which flooded to a close record a year ago, just as help control fares and bolster worldwide costs. Sugar fates have fallen nearly 5% in the previous year as India lifts trades in spite of analysis from different makers that the outpouring is discouraging costs. 

Sugar creation may aggregate around 26 million tons in 2019-20 if some stick juice and B-overwhelming molasses are utilized to make ethanol, as per the announcement. Sugar ranchers in India had been hit by an unfriendly climate this year. To start with, the yearly rainstorm, which waters the greater part of the country's farmland, showed up later than ordinary. 

As precipitation expanded, flooding at that point hurt yields in certain zones of Maharashtra and Karnataka, the nation's second and third-greatest creating locales. In the interim, precipitation in Uttar Pradesh, the greatest cultivator, was 9% beneath typical.

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Sugar output in India may drop to a 3-year low next season on dry weather

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Sugar output in India may drop to a three-year low next season from a record as dry weather shrivels cane plants in some major growing areas of the country.

Production in India, which vies with Brazil as the world’s top grower, may slide to 28 million to 29 million tons in the year that begins Oct. 1 from 33 million tons this year, said Prakash Naiknavare, managing director of the National Federation of Cooperative Sugar Factories Ltd.

Droughts are withering cane fields in parts of Maharashtra and Karnataka, and the monsoon is delayed, reducing prospects for the coming crop. A lower harvest would trim a record domestic surplus, potentially curtailing exports and supporting global prices. India swings between being a sugar importer and exporter, depending on the size of local output.

“Parts of Maharashtra and Karnataka are reeling under drought, which is adversely affecting cane productivity and sugar recovery,” Naiknavare said in a phone interview on Wednesday. “Production will also depend on this year’s monsoon rains.”

Sharp Drop

Sugar production in Maharashtra, the country’s second-biggest grower, may slump about 40% to 6.44 million tons in 2019-20 from this year, said Shekhar Gaikwad, Maharashtra’s sugar commissioner. The area under cane, which will be available for crushing next season, will likely drop about 28% to 843,000 hectares (2.08 million acres) from a year earlier, he said.

Sugar cane plants in a large part of Maharashtra have dried up, Gaikwad said. Many farmers are selling their cane to fodder buyers as they are currently fetching better prices than a sugar mill offers, he added. Farmers need to keep irrigating the crop for the next 6 to 8 months, but they are not certain about the monsoon’s performance this year, Gaikwad said.