Sugar production for 2013-14 estimated to be 25 million tonne: ISMA

Sugar production in India is estimated to touch 25 million tonne in the sugar season 2013-14 starting from October. As per the estimate done by industry body ISMA ( Indian Sugar Mills Association), the availability of cane acreage for crushing in sugar season 2013-14, will be around 52.89 lakh hectare.

Good monsoon this year would help augment the sugar production for the coming season. In 2012-13 sugar season, India produced 24.5 million tonne of sugar.

Sugarcane acreage for Maharashtra is reported to be around 9.4 lakh hectare and a sugar production of 7.8 million tonne. Sugar recovery for the state would also go up by 11.44%. Whereas in Uttar Pradesh, the cane acreage is around 25.13 lakh hectare and would lead to a sugar production of 7.7 million tonne of sugar.

"ISMA is expecting slightly lower yields from UP than last year on account of lesser millable sugarcane per hectare availability due to excess rains, which affected the late sown sugarcane plants this year," said a statement by the industrial body.

Karnataka sugar production is expected to remain at almost the same levels of last year i.e. around 3.4 million tonne, while major fall is only expected from Tamil Nadu which may give 15% lower production of 1.6 million ton, as compared to last year's production of about 1.9 million tonne of sugar.