Centre questions states on Sugar production data

After reporting two consecutive years of poor performance of sugar output data by the Indian Sugar Mills Association, the Food Ministry has now raised questions about the authenticity of the published data.

For two consecutive years of lowe sugar production of 22.5 million tonnes, the states are told not to solely depend on the cane production data for calculating probable sugar output, rather they should check and prepare  the cane production figures on their own by analysing the field data along with the satellite images captured.

They have also suggested to evaluate the mill-wise yield instead of taking states' average, to conclude accurately about the final figure of the probable sugar output numbers, as it is possible that the mills are under-reporting production figures.

It was earlier reported in the ISMA press release that the drop in sugar production could also be due to drought impacted states like Maharashtra and Karnataka which are usually the major producing states of India.

While the sugar stocks in India have performed well in last one month, the stocks have gained 5 % - 60% in the last one month itself with Uttam Sugar leading from the front and has gained  61.39 per cent in last one month.