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India emerges as the world's largest producer, consumer of sugar

  •   Wed, Oct 05 2022 05:22:53 PM

New Delhi, Oct 5 (IANS): India has emerged as the world's largest producer and consumer of sugar and its second largest exporter.

In sugar season (October-September) 2021-22, a record over 5,000 lakh metric tons (LMT) sugarcane was produced in the country, out of which about 3,574 LMT was crushed by sugar mills to produce about 394 LMT of sugar (sucrose). Out of this, 35 LMT sugar was diverted to ethanol production and 359 LMT sugar was produced by sugar mills.

As per Ministry of Consumer Affairs, the season has proven to be a watershed for the Indian sugar sector. All records of sugarcane production, sugar production, sugar exports, cane procured, cane dues paid, and ethanol production were made during the season.

Another highlight of the season is the highest exports of about 109.8 LMT that too with no financial assistance which was being extended upto 2020-21. Supportive international prices and the Indian government policy led to this feat of Indian sugar industry. These exports earned foreign currency of about Rs 40,000 crore for the country.

The success story of the sugar industry is the outcome of synchronous and collaborative efforts of Central and state governments, farmers, sugar mills, ethanol distilleries with a very supportive overall ecosystem for business in the country. Timely government interventions since the last 5 years have been crucial in building the sugar sector step by step from taking them out of financial distress in 2018-19 to the stage of self-sufficiency in 2021-22.

Officials said that during SS 2021-22, sugar mills procured sugarcane worth more than Rs 1.18 lakh crore and released payment of more than Rs 1.12 lakh crore with no financial assistance (subsidy) from the Centre. Thus, cane dues at the end of sugar season are less than Rs 6,000 crore indicating that 95 per cent of cane dues have already been cleared. It is also noteworthy that for SS 2020-21, more than 99.9 per cent cane dues are cleared.

 

 
  

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  • Rudolf Rodrigues, Mumbai

    Wed, Oct 05 2022

    Refined sugar is a big poison; with India having the title of diabetes capital of the world, this is no good news! The more one avoids sugar, the better it is!!

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  • Vinod Kumar, Mangalore

    Wed, Oct 05 2022

    India is a land of producing bountiful harvest of abundant food. So much so India exports wheat, rice and other food grain but then why so much poverty and so many hungry stomachs in india?. After all foreign invaders did not come simply like that to capture the golden bird. But our govt now put that bird in its own cage for selfish and greedy motive and made its citizens to eat the dust.

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  • mohan prabhu, mangalore/canada

    Wed, Oct 05 2022

    An amazing feat! The world still consumes a lot of sugar, most of which is refined and is of no nutritional value but, on the contrary, bad for health. Many health conscous people use sugar substitutes. In the days of yore, when I was still a young kid in Mangalore, my aunt had a large sugar cane plantation in Pavanje and whenever I visited during our holidays we got to know the process of making jaggery (both flat - which in Tulu, was called BELLA) and cube jaggery (which in Konkani was called ushen goD) - and were given a good helping to taste and gorge. Later, we began to use brown sugar and sugar lumps (kaDe sakkar). Those were the days! Congratulations to the sugar industry. I did visit a sugar factory in Rampur (UP) in 1960, which was my last year in India.

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