Sugar shares spurt after rise in sugar prices

Fourteen sugar shares rose by 0.21% to 12.22% at 15:00 IST on BSE, following a rise in sugar prices in global commodities market.

Oudh Sugar Mills (up 12.22%), Dwarikesh Sugar Industries (up 10.86%), Upper Ganges Sugar & Industries (up 9.99%), Rana Sugars (up 8.57%), Sakthi Sugars (up 7.47%), Simbhaoli Sugars (up 7.16%), Triveni Engineering & Industries (up 5.88%), DCM Shriram Industries (up 4.17%), Dhampur Sugar Mills (up 3.22%), Empee Sugars and Chemicals (up 2.75%), Balrampur Chini Mills (up 2.63%), KCP Sugar & Industries Corporation (up 2.33%), Shree Renuka Sugar (up 0.68%) and Bajaj Hindusthan Sugar (up 0.21%), edged higher. EID Parry (India) was down 0.78%.

The S&P BSE Sensex was up 55.43 points, or 0.21% at 26,035.03.

Raw Sugar futures dropped under 18 cents per pound last week before bouncing back above that levels this week. Conab, the Brazilian crop supply agency has noted that sugar prices are being helped by concerns of a global production deficit.

This rebound has also capped the losses for local sugar prices, which took a hit after the Demonetization drive. Medium Grade Sugar in Muzaffarnagar dropped from Rs 3780 per quintal to Rs 3630 per quintal in six week after the government banned high values notes on 8 November 2016. However, prices are up near Rs 3700 per quintal now. The commodity is up about 15% this year.

Meanwhile, according to the Indian Sugar Mills Association (ISMA), as on 15 December 2016, 440 sugar mills were crushing sugarcane for the year 2016-2017 SS, and they have produced 53.29 lakh tonnes of sugar till that date, i.e. 5.36 lakh tonnes, or 11%, higher than the sugar production on the corresponding date of previous sugar season, when same number of sugar mills were in operation and had produced 47.93 lakh tonnes of sugar.

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