Sugar mills in Uttar Pradesh to start crushing from October-end

The sugarcane department said it had effected some amendments for the benefit of bona fide farmers and to weed out 'sugarcane mafia' and unscrupulous complicity of government and mill officials

Mills in Uttar Pradesh, the country’s top sugar producer, are likely to start crushing operations from October-end. The projections for the coming season indicate record domestic sugar opening stock of 14.5 million tonnes (MT). 

While Western UP units would start operating after Diwali in the last week of October, the sugar mills in Central and Eastern UP have been asked to start by the end of first and second weeks of November, respectively.

The Yogi Adityanath-led government has also announced sugarcane supply quota policy for 2019-20. The policy fixes supply quota of individual farmers, segregating them as marginal, small and