Sugar Annual Report, India – 13th May 2019

India’s centrifugal sugar production in marketing year (MY) 2019/20 (Oct-Sept) is expected to decline 8.4 percent to 30.3 million metric tons (MMT) due to lower than expected sugarcane production and net reduction in national sugar recovery rate, which was at a record high this season (MY 2018/19).  Despite the trend, for the third time in the last four years Uttar Pradesh will again be the largest producer of sugar in India; this will partially compensate for lower output from Maharashtra and …