Sugarcane crushing in full swing throughout nation, says sugar commerce physique AISTA

The sugarcane crushing operation within the 2023-23 season is in full swing post-Diwali throughout the nation, commerce physique AISTA mentioned on Tuesday. Sugar season runs from October to September.

“The crushing operation is in full swing throughout the nation now. All sugar factories have began the crushing,” All India Sugar Commerce Affiliation (AISTA) chairman Praful Vithalani instructed PTI. Some mills had begun the crushing operation throughout mid-October. Nonetheless, it picked up post-Diwali, he mentioned.

There are about greater than 700 put in sugar factories within the nation with crushing capability of about 340 lakh tonnes of sugar, as per the official information.

The nation’s whole sugarcane manufacturing is estimated to be larger at 434.79 million tonnes within the 2023-24 crop 12 months (July-June), as in opposition to 422.25 million tonnes within the earlier 12 months, as per the primary estimate launched by the agriculture ministry.

There was a gap inventory of sugar at 5.7 million tonnes as of October 1 in view of slight decline within the home manufacturing within the 2022-23 season owing to unhealthy climate in some producing states. Home annual consumption is estimated to be about 29 million tonnes.