India's Oct-Dec sugar output rises 4.3% y/y -trade body

Triveni Engineering and Industries

03/01/2022 08:43

MUMBAI, Jan 3 (Reuters) - Indian sugar mills have produced
11.56 million tonnes of sugar in the first three months of
2021/22 marketing year, up nearly 4.3% from the same period a
year earlier, a trade body said on Monday.
    India is the world's second-biggest sugar producer and the
higher output could weigh on global prices.  SBc1 ,  LSUc1 .
    Sugar mills have so far contracted to export about 4 million
tonnes of sugar in the new marketing year that started on Oct.
1, the Indian Sugar Mills Association (ISMA) said in a
statement.

 (Reporting by Rajendra Jadhav
Editing by David Goodman
)
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