Sugar industry overestimated October output

Will now be 60% below earlier commitment of 800,000 tonnes as maintenance work delays start of cane crushing

India’s sugar output in October is likely to achieve only 40 per cent of the earlier assured quantity.
 
Based on assurances from individual mills and extrapolating of non-responsive ones, the apex industry body had in August sent a written commitment to the Union ministry of food for 800,000 tonnes in October. To achieve this, mills planned to advance the crushing season by three to four weeks.
 
Thus, instead of commencing cane crushing by October end or early November, leading mills in Uttar Pradesh, Tamil Nadu, Karnataka and Maharashtra — the four big producing states — had said they’d