{"id":23923,"date":"2025-12-02T13:37:57","date_gmt":"2025-12-02T13:37:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.selinawamucii.com\/news\/?p=23923"},"modified":"2025-12-02T13:38:36","modified_gmt":"2025-12-02T13:38:36","slug":"sugar-industry-in-india-handles-excess-suggests-more-exports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.selinawamucii.com\/news\/2025\/12\/02\/sugar-industry-in-india-handles-excess-suggests-more-exports\/","title":{"rendered":"Sugar industry in India handles excess, suggests more exports"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

India expects sugar production to rise to 35 million tonnes in the 2025-26 marketing year, fueling industry concerns on exports and prices<\/u><\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Out of this October 2025-September 2026 seasonal total, 5 million tonnes will constitute ethanol while 31.5 million tonnes sugar<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The above National Federation of Cooperative Sugar Factories (NFCSF)\u2019s sugar output projection almost equals 2023\u2019s record 32 million tonnes. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

This hints at a home surplus against a 2025-26 consumption projection by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) of 31 million tonnes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Exports could help ease some of the glut but any extra shipment sanction must pass through state review. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

India\u2019s central government halfheartedly returned to exports in January 2025 at 1 million tonnes<\/u><\/a>, before raising them to 1.5 million tonnes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Now the industry wants to increase this dispatch by 1 million tonnes to 2.5 million tonnes to boost weak domestic sugar rates.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThis will…stabilise the domestic sugar prices,<\/u><\/a>\u201d suggested the NFCSF\u2019s managing director, Prakash Naiknavare. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to Naiknavare, the minimum selling price (MSP) has been at 3,100 rupees ($34.50) a quintal (100 kg) since the 2018-19 year. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The MD is therefore suggesting a rate matching production cost currently at 4,024.49 rupees ($44.79)\/quintal in late 2025.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the 2025 sugar retail rate context, stakeholders argue that the MSP ought to at least reach 41 rupees ($0.46) a kg.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Supply Momentum <\/strong><\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

The call finds sugarcane crushing by 424 sugar factories for the period ending November 30, 2025 at 48.6 million tonnes. This was versus some 33.4 million tonnes for a similar period in 2024.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Maharashtra alone in western India produced 4.11 million tonnes of the sweetener in October and November 2025, up 43%<\/u><\/a> annually.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

India\u2019s marketing year begins October, which means Maharashtra managed a big fraction of annual production in the first two months.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Production leader Uttar Pradesh also processed 1.4 million tonnes this November, 1.12 million tonnes more than November 2024\u2019s.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Rising factory numbers are also contributing to the surplus, now at 428 versus 376 mills in 2024-25.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is no wonder then that the FSCAF projects a glut 2025-26 sugar year for the subcontinent. For more on the sugar industry of India, peruse the below stats. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

India Sugar Industry <\/strong>Statistics <\/strong><\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The sugar industry of India is huge in terms of production, consumption, and business (mills e.t.c). In output terms, India is, together with Brazil, the leading sugar-producing nation. But it is a low exporter due to high consumption at 31 million tonnes annually (2025-26 USDA<\/u><\/a>\u2019s projection). This is against a production capacity at 35 million tonnes, per a 2025-26 annual forecast by the USDA. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

For this reason, consumption forces export restrictions. India last exported a substantial 11.1 million tonnes<\/u><\/a> of sugar in the 2021-22 sugar marketing year for the period ending 2025. By the 2022-23 timeline, exports had halved to 6.1 million tonnes<\/u><\/a> while in 2024 there were no sales. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, mills for sugar have been changing drastically in number to match reigning domestic demand. By November 30, 2025, there were 428 <\/u><\/a>sugar mills versus 376 in late 2024, per Fortune India. Beforehand in the 2022-23 period, they had numbered 532, versus 305 a year before. Mills average 31.1 million tonnes of sugar per annum. This is in reference to the Indian Sugar Millers Association (ISMA<\/u><\/a>)\u2019s data from October 1, 2022 to April 15, 2023.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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