Maharashtra produces 106.3 lakh tonne sugar as crushing season ends

Kolhapur, Ahmednagar and Pune areas accounted for greater than 50% of the state’s complete manufacturing. Drought-prone areas of Aurangabad, Nanded, Amravati and Nagpur produced 197 lakh quintal sugar, which is nineteen% of the whole state manufacturing. A complete of 53 mills had began crushing operations in these drought-prone areas.

Maharashtra’s 2020-21 sugar season has come to an finish, with the state producing 106.3 lakh tonne of sugar after crushing 1,012 lakh tonne of cane with a sugar restoration of 10.50%, officers of the Maharashtra Sugar Commissionerate mentioned.

Round 190 sugar mills, together with 95 cooperative and 95 non-public mills, participated within the crushing season, working for a median of 140 days. The state had produced a report 107 lakh tonne of sugar within the 2018-19 season.

Sugar commissioner Shekhar Gaikwad mentioned sugarcane was cultivated on 11.42 lakh hectares for the 2020-21 season, in comparison with 8.22 lakh hectares in 2019-20. The planting space for the 2021-22 season is but to be assessed, he mentioned. Based on tough estimates, the state may even see cane cultivation on no less than 12 lakh hectares, he mentioned, including that farmers are shifting from different crops to sugarcane due to assured revenue.

Kolhapur, Ahmednagar and Pune areas accounted for greater than 50% of the state’s complete manufacturing. Drought-prone areas of Aurangabad, Nanded, Amravati and Nagpur produced 197 lakh quintal sugar, which is nineteen% of the whole state manufacturing. A complete of 53 mills had began crushing operations in these drought-prone areas.

Round 37 mills from Kolhapur crushed 231 lakh tonne of cane to provide 277 lakh quintals of sugar with a sugar restoration price of 12%, whereas 31 mills from Pune crushed 231 lakh tonne of cane and produced 253 lakh tonne of sugar with a restoration of 10.97%. This season, 43 mills from Solapur crushed 176 lakh tonne sugarcane to provide 165 lakh tonne of sugar with a restoration price of 9.38%.

Gaikwad mentioned that as of Could 15, sugar mills within the state owed farmers `1,458.73 crore after making honest and remunerative value (FRP) funds of `21,429.35 crore (practically 93.63% of the whole FRP funds owed to farmers). The state has issued income restoration certificates (RRC) orders to 19 mills that didn’t make even half funds to farmers. Gaikwad mentioned RRCs shall be issued to different mills from Marathwada.

Following the orders, district collectors have the authority to connect property, together with the sugar mills and the produce. Funds collected from the public sale can be utilized to pay farmers’ dues.

The commissioner mentioned sugar shares with the mills may very well be within the vary of fifty lakh tonne as on date. This 12 months, round 10 lakh tonne of sugar was diverted in direction of ethanol and the goal is to divert 15 lakh tonne within the subsequent season, he mentioned.