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Govt yet to take a call on extending sugar export sops: Paswan

Says mills owe Rs 43 bn to cane growers for last season

Reuters New Delhi

The government is yet to take a call on extending sops for overseas sale of sugar in the 2014-15 season, Food Minister Ram Vilas Paswan said on Thursday.

The minister also said mills owed about Rs 43 billion ($692 million) to cane growers for the last season ended Sept. 30.

Sugar season in India, the world's second biggest producer after Brazil, runs from October to September.

 

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First Published: Nov 20 2014 | 2:05 PM IST

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