Page 14 - Sugar

Sugar prices at wholesale market fall by Rs 55 per quintal in New Delhi

Marketmen says besides ample stocks on regular supplies from mills following the beginning of a crushing session pulls down sugar prices

Sugar shares in focus; Upper Ganges, Oudh Sugar up 20%

Upper Ganges, Oudh Sugar, Mawana Sugars, Kesar Ent, Dwarikesh Sugar and Simbhaoli Sugar were up 11% to 20%.

Early start to sugar season

Production, at 787,000 tonnes is a marginal 15,000 tonnes higher as compared to last year on the same date

India sweet tooth just got more expensive as sugar output slides

About 9 per cent of crops were in bad condition, up from 5.5 per cent in the 2015-16 survey

Govt pegs 2016-17 sugar output at 22.52 MT; down 10.27%

Country's sugar production had declined to 25.1 MT in the 2015-16 season due to drought in major growing states

Sugar shares in focus; Oudh Sugar, Thiru Arooran Sugars up 5%

Ponni Sugars (Erode), Rana Sugars, Simbhaoli Sugars, Uttam Sugar and Thiru Arooran were up 5%-15% on BSE.

UP govt mulls 10% hike in cane price

No price hike for three years due to poor economic health of mills; this time, ruling party is pleasing cane farmers with one eye on 2017 assembly polls

Govt weighs in cut in sugar import duty

Food Minister Ram Vilas Paswan said the government will soon start selling pulses through post offices

Centre mulls lowering sugar import duty to cool down prices

Sugar is available at an average price of Rs 40 per kg, although the maximum rate is Rs 47 per kg

Sugar stocks comfortable, no abnormal price rise: Centre

All India average retail price of sugar is hovering at Rs 40-42 a kg

Maharashtra's sugar output expected to hit 6-year low

Dip is due to fall in sugarcane area and availability of the crop for crushing

Low cane output to hit sugar production

First advanced estimates by ISMA forecasts sugar output at 23.37 mnT,a marginal recovery from its June estimates of 23.26 mnT

India could import 1 mn tonnes of sugar in 2016/17: Louis Dreyfus

Louis Dreyfus expects India to consume about 25.5 million tonnes of sugar in 2016/17 compared with a production of about 22.5 million tonnes

Centre's 37% sugar quota bar irks sugar mills in Maharashtra

Union govt has asked every sugar mill in the state to keep only 37% of its stock and to offload the rest by September 30

Sugar stocks extend rally; Dharani Sugars, Kesar Enterprises up over 10%

Dharani Sugars, Kesar Enterprises, Triveni Engg,, Dalmia Bharat Sugar and Mawana Sugars were up 10%-20%.

Sugar shares in demand on rising prices

Mawana Sugars, Dwarikesh Sugar, Dharani Sugars, Thiru Arooran and Simbhaoli Sugars are up between 5% and 9%.

Sugar prices at three-year high on strong demand

Marketmen said widening of the gap between demand and supply too supported the upside in prices

UP sugar production may not fall but mills to carry forward Rs 1,200 cr arrears

The cane and sugar production in the state is expected to be at par last year of little over than 68.55 lakh tonnes

Sugar mills have to release 4.8 mt by October 31

The quantity works out to 20% more than consumption, price to crash in near term

Sugar mills want loans recast, stock limits lifted

It also appealed to Centre to direct RBI for continuation of exemption of levy on excise duty on ethanol