Juxtaposed to lingering sugarcane payment crisis and accumulation of unsold sugar inventory in Uttar Pradesh, the Yogi Adityanath government has demanded almost doubling of the monthly sugar sale quota of the state sugar mills to over 1.1 million tonnes (MT).
UP sugarcane commissioner Sanjay Bhoosreddy has written to the union food secretary to increase the sugar sale quota to 1.133 MT to facilitate speedier payments to farmers and easing the inventory build up.
He said the state mills had sugar carryover stock of more than 2.6 MT pertaining to the previous crushing season 2017-18, when UP had produced over 12