India Produced Almost 250k Tonnes of Sugar Per Day in December

  • In the last two weeks of 2020, India produced 3.65m tonnes of sugar; this is almost 250k tonnes per day.
  • This makes it its third-highest fortnightly production on record, falling just behind 2H December and 2H January 2018/19.
  • Such a strong pace has been achieved as 481 mills are now fully operational.
  • In the record-holding 2018/19 season, 501 mills were operating at this stage.
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  • India’s sugar production totals 11.02m tonnes to date, marking only the second time its production has exceeded 11m tonnes by the new year.
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Karnataka Made a Rapid Start

  • Karnataka has produced 2.4m tonnes of sugar so far this season, up 370k tonnes from the last record held in 2018/19.
  • 66 mills are now operating here, compared to 63 in the same stage of the last couple of seasons.
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Uttar Pradesh Also Started Well

  • Production also started well in Uttar Pradesh, with 3.3m tonnes of sugar produced by the end of December.
  • 1.1m tonnes of sugar was produced by 120 mills in 2H December compared to 119 last season.
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Maharashtra Slips Behind 2018/19’s Pace

  • Maharashtra has produced 4m tonnes of sugar so far this season, making it its second-fastest start on record.
  • 179 mills are now crushing, which is five fewer than in 2018/19 but 44 more than last season, where operations were impacted by water shortages.
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Ben Seed

Ben joined CZ’s analysis team in 2016 on a year long internship before returning to the University of Bath to complete an Economics Degree. Since re-joining in August 2018, Ben has led the data insights team in expanding the range and quality of data available internally and to clients through CZ App. Ben spent 3 months in CZ’s Singapore and Bangkok offices to expand his knowledge of the region and help roll out the latest data processes. He is now also responsible for the Sugar Market View published each week on CZ App.

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