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NFCSF has projected the nation’s complete sugar output to be at 305 lakh tonnes within the 2023-24 season, decrease than 330.90 lakh tonnes achieved within the 2022-23 season.
Sugar season runs from October to September.
Releasing the newest information, the Nationwide Federation of Cooperative Sugar Factories (NFCSF) mentioned a complete of 511 factories had crushed 1,223 lakh tonnes of sugarcane until December 2023 of the continued season.
Among the many prime three sugar producing states, the output in Maharashtra and Karnataka remained decrease through the October-December interval of this season.
“For the reason that central authorities has restricted the manufacturing of ethanol from sugarcane juice, the whole availability of latest sugar within the nation for native consumption is predicted to be 305 lakh tonnes,” NFCSF President Jaiprakash Dandegaonkar mentioned. In accordance with the NFCSF information, sugar manufacturing in Maharashtra — the nation’s prime sugar producing state — was decrease at 38.20 lakh tonnes until December of 2023-24 season, as towards 47.40 lakh tonnes within the year-ago interval. Equally, the manufacturing in Karnataka, the nation’s third largest producing state, was decrease at 24 lakh tonnes, as towards 26.70 lakh tonnes within the mentioned interval.
Nonetheless, Uttar Pradesh, the nation’s second largest sugar producing state, produced extra sugar at 34.65 lakh tonnes until December of this season, when in comparison with 30.80 lakh tonnes within the year-ago interval.
NFCSF mentioned the common sugar restoration within the nation stood at 9.17 per cent and “as winter progresses, sugar yield is predicted to extend accordingly”.
By the tip of the season, Uttar Pradesh is predicted to supply 115 lakh tonnes of sugar, Maharashtra 90 lakh tonnes, Karnataka 42 lakh tonnes, Tamil Nadu 12 lakh tonnes and Gujarat 10 lakh tonnes, it added.
NFCSF Managing Director Prakash Naiknavare mentioned the present restriction on ethanol manufacturing could also be relaxed to some extent because the estimated 290 lakh tonnes of sugar manufacturing initially of the season is predicted to extend by about 15 lakh tonnes.
NFCSF and the Indian Sugar Mills Affiliation will collectively flag this problem with the central authorities, he added.
