Over 2 hundred mills will start crushing sugarcane from October 15
The Maharashtra authorities on Monday announced that sugar mills inside the State will begin the 2022-23 sugarcane crushing season from October 15. According to the State government estimate, some 203 turbines will begin crushing and convey 13.Eight million tonnes (mt) of sugar with the aid of the give up of the season. Last season turbines produced thirteen.Seventy four mt of sugar to surpass Uttar Pradesh as the most important sugar generating State.

The Cabinet committee under Chief Minister Eknath Shinde on Monday introduced that the sugarcane crushing season will start on October 15. Shinde lauded farmers and millers for making Maharashtra the 0.33 biggest sugar manufacturer inside the international.

As in line with the press assertion issued by using Shinde’s office about 14.87 lakh hectares of land had been brought underneath sugarcane this season and a median ninety five tonne consistent with hectare of sugar manufacturing is expected, resulting in 13.8 mt manufacturing inside the 2022-23 season.
Last sugar season, about 2 hundred turbines overwhelmed sugarcane and farmers acquired FRP of ₹42,650 crore, which changed into ninety eight according to cent of the entire payable FRP. This season average of a hundred and sixty days of crushing is predicted and an FRP of ₹three,050 in keeping with tonne might be paid for a simple extraction of 10.25 according to cent sugar.

As of now, 6 mt of sugar shares are available inside the u . S ., out of which three mt is in Maharashtra. In the approaching season, approximately 10 mt of sugar is expected to be exported from India and Maharashtra’s percentage could be of 6 mt.

According to the State government, Maharashtra has a 35 per cent proportion in India’s ethanol manufacturing. The meeting below Chief Minister Shinde additionally determined to request the union government to hold the open preferred license policy.