Sugar production in the current sugar season is expected to be 13 percent higher than the previous sugar season. Ministry of Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution in a statement today said, as per the revised estimates, production of sugar in the current sugar season is estimated to be about 350 lakh metric tonne LMT against estimated domestic consumption of about 278 LMT.

It said that there was carry over stock of sugar of about 85 LMT at the beginning of the sugar season 2021-22. The Ministry said, the availability of sugar in the country is sufficient to meet the domestic requirement.  It is expected that in the current sugar season, cane price payment of more than  one lakh crore rupees crores would be made by sugar mills to farmers.