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Sugar accumulation till successful the archetypal 2 months of the existent sweetener selling play (October 1, 2025 to September 30, 2026) is astatine 41.08 lakh tones from 428 sweetener mills.
As galore arsenic 376 mills produced conscionable 28.76 lakh tonnes past twelvemonth for the aforesaid period.
In Uttar Pradesh, sweetener accumulation has reached 13.97 lakh tonnes, higher by 1.17 lakh tonnes compared with past twelvemonth and successful Maharashtra, 170 sweetener mills person produced 16.95 lakh tonnes. Sugarcane crushing has improved successful Karnataka too, said the Indian Sugar and Bio-energy Manufacturers Association (ISMA).
With the caller summation of cane outgo successful U.P., Karnataka, Punjab, Haryana, and Uttarakhand, the mean outgo of sweetener accumulation has gone up to ₹41.72 a kg. The authorities indispensable revised upwards the Minimum Selling Price of sugar, the ISMA said.
The authorities should hike the ethanol procurement terms to bespeak higher feedstock and conversion costs. The existent allocation of lone 289 crore litres of ethanol to the sweetener assemblage for Ethanol sweetener twelvemonth 2025–26 — simply 27.5% of full allocations — has near a ample portion of distillery capableness underutilised, it added.
