Water Scarcity Claims Another Victim in South Indian Sugar Mills
- EID Parry has mothballed two factories in Tamil Nadu
- Sugar cane acreage to fall 12% in 2019-20 from a year earlier
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Sugar mills in the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu are facing a roadblock. Scarcity of cane.
EID Parry India Ltd. has mothballed two factories in Tamil Nadu and has shut one factory in nearby Puducherry due to non-availability of cane, said M.M. Murugappan, executive chairman of parent Murugappa group. The group owns 44.89% in EID Parry, according to a statement on the company’s website.