Sugar Output Drops 29% in India Top Producer on Rain
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Sugar production in Maharashtra, India’s biggest producer, fell 29 percent in the season that began Oct. 1 after heavy rainfall in the main growing areas slowed harvests, a producers’ group said.
Mills produced 408,000 metric tons until Nov. 20, compared with 573,000 tons a year ago, said Prakash Naiknavare, managing director of the Maharashtra State Cooperative Sugar Factories Federation Ltd. About 5 million tons of cane has been crushed, 20 percent less than a year earlier, he said in an interview.