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UP sugar crisis: Yogi govt urges Centre to raise monthly sale quota by 60%

Currently, almost 60% of Uttar Pradesh sugar stock stands unsold even as the total cane arrears stand at Rs 120 billion

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Virendra Singh Rawat Lucknow
Amid record sugar production coupled with sugarcane arrears in Uttar Pradesh (UP), the Yogi Adityanath government has urged the Centre to increase the monthly sugar sale quota of state mills by 60 per cent to a million tonnes (MT).

UP sugarcane commissioner Sanjay Bhoosreddy has written to the union food ministry for increasing the sugar sale quota from 0.625 MT to 1 MT for June so that the financial liquidity of mills can improve and aid in for settling arrears.

Although UP sugar production stands at more than 12 MT compared to about 10.7 MT in Maharashtra, the latter’s

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