Higher Supplies Keeping Sugar Prices in Check India’s sugar production reached 10.3 MMT as of 31 December 2017, a 25.36 percent increase from the total 8.2 MMT on the same date in 2016. It totaled 3.8 MMT in Maharashtra, 3.33 MMT in Uttar Pradesh and 1.62 MMT in Karnataka. This boost corresponds with the higher number of mills in operation, which total almost 485 against 441 the previous year. Meanwhile, sugar prices increased 2.37 percent in the first three days of the New Year before then declining again due to lack of buyers. The higher production and arrivals in the market as well as an overall larger supply will likely keep prices in check.
Opening stocks of 3.88 MMT, production of 25.1 MMT and 0.2 MMT produced from imported...
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