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Sugar output in 2020-21 estimated to rise 12% to 30.5 mn tonnes

This would be 12 per cent higher than estimated production of 27.2 MT in the current 2019-20 cycle

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Virendra Singh Rawat Lucknow

3 min read Last Updated : Jun 26 2020 | 2:22 AM IST

With the forecast of a bountiful monsoon, domestic sugar production is estimated at 30.5 million tonnes (MT) in the 2020-21 crushing season, which would be 12 per cent higher than the estimated production of 27.2 MT this season.

These projections have been made by the Indian Sugar Mills Association (ISMA) assuming normal rainfall and other ‘optimum conditions’. The pan India cane acreage has been pegged at 5.23 million hectares (MH) in 2020-21, 8 per cent higher than this season’s cropped area of 4.84 MH.

Thanks to higher cane availability and surplus sugar production, it is estimated that a larger quantity

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