INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
cent in the next crushing season beginning October 1
Experts said assured returns for growers, coupled with better water availability, would propel the shift to sugarcane cultivation,
especially given prolonged subdued realisations for most other crops.
The sugar industry of Uttar Pradesh, the largest sugar producing
state, which is also eyeing a bumper crop, has already communicated to the government its inability to continue with sugarcane crop in the
around 11.26 lakh hectares, up from 9.02 lakh hectares recorded in the ongoing year
The commissionerate will soon come out with its official estimate
area under sugarcane in Maharashtra to increase to 11.25 lakh hectares
increase the number of mills that will be operational during next season by trying to revive sick sugar mills," said Sambhaji Kadu Patil,
commissioner (sugar), Maharashtra.
