Sugar production till in the first two months of the current sugar marketing season (October 1, 2025 to September 30, 2026) is at 41.08 lakh tones from 428 sugar mills.
As many as 376 mills produced just 28.76 lakh tonnes last year for the same period.
In Uttar Pradesh, sugar production has reached 13.97 lakh tonnes, higher by 1.17 lakh tonnes compared with last year and in Maharashtra, 170 sugar mills have produced 16.95 lakh tonnes. Sugarcane crushing has improved in Karnataka too, said the Indian Sugar and Bio-energy Manufacturers Association (ISMA).
With the recent increase of cane cost in U.P., Karnataka, Punjab, Haryana, and Uttarakhand, the average cost of sugar production has gone up to ₹41.72 a kg. The government must revised upwards the Minimum Selling Price of sugar, the ISMA said.
The government should hike the ethanol procurement price to reflect higher feedstock and conversion costs. The current allocation of only 289 crore litres of ethanol to the sugar sector for Ethanol sugar year 2025–26 — merely 27.5% of total allocations — has left a large part of distillery capacity underutilised, it added.
Published – December 02, 2025 09:54 pm IST
