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Sugar industry pins hopes on Paswan for a sweetener as glut still looms

Next season to start with a high opening stock of 6-7 months of consumption

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Virendra Singh Rawat Lucknow
With Ram Vilas Paswan taking charge as food, civil supplies and consumer affairs minister for another term, he will have to tackle the same problems faced by the sugar industry which he attempted to resolve a year ago.

This time, however, he will have to tackle them differently, that is, by being WTO compliant.

After a big package was announced in phases a year ago, excess sugar availability is still a constant. 

Even the price at which mills sell the sweetener has been artificially elevated, with the government coming up with a minimum sale price below which mills cannot sell.