SUGAR PRODUCTION AS ON 31^ST DEC’ 2021

• 492 sugar mills were in operation in the country as on 31^st December 2021 and have produced 115.55 lac tons of sugar, as compared to 110.74 lac tons produced by 481 sugar mills as on 31^st December 2020.  This is 4.81 lac tons higher as compared to last season’s production for the corresponding period. 
• In Maharashtra, 189 sugar mills, which are in operation, have produced 45.77 lac tons till 31^st December, 2021, as against 179 sugar mills which had produced 39.86 lac tons last year upto same period. This is 5.91 lac tons higher than the last year production on the corresponding date.
• In Uttar Pradesh, 119 sugar mills have produced 30.90 lac tons till 31^st December, 2021. In the last 2020-21 SS, 120 sugar mills were in operation on 31^st December, 2020 and they had produced 33.66 lac tons of sugar.
• 69 sugar mills were in operation in Karnataka on 31^st December, 2021, who have produced 25.65 lac tons of sugar, as compared to 24.16 lac tons produced by 66 sugar mills in 2020-21 SS on 31^st December, 2020. 
• In Gujarat, 15 sugar mills are operating for 2021-22 SS and they have produced 3.5 lac tons of sugar till 31^st December, 2021.  In 2020-21 SS, similar number of sugar mills were in operation on 31^st December, 2020, who had produced 3.35 lac tons of sugar till that date.
• In Andhra Pradesh and Telangana, 12 sugar mills have produced 1.05 lac tons of sugar till 31^st December, 2021, as compared to 94000 tons produced by similar number of sugar mills in 2020-21 SS, till 31^st December, 2020. 
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• In Tamil Nadu, 15 sugar mills are in operation as compared to 19 mills which operated on 31^st December last year.  Sugar mills in Tamil Nadu have produced about 92000 tons of sugar till 31^st December 2021 as against 73000 tons produced last year on the corresponding date.
• Mills of Bihar have produced 1.94 lac tons, Haryana 1.74 lac tons, Punjab 1.40 lac tons, Uttarakhand 1.23 lac ton and Madhya Pradesh & Chhattisgarh 1.40 lac tons, till 31^st December 2021.
• As is the practice, ISMA will procure satellite images in 2^nd week of January’ 2022. Based on the images of the cane area remaining to be harvested, trend of recovery, yield and drawal percentage of sugarcane achieved so far, ISMA will come out with its second advance estimates of sugar production for 2021-22 SS, by end of January, 2022.
• As per information furnished by mills and estimations made by ISMA, total sugar sales in the current season upto November, 2021 was around 47.50 lac tons against domestic sales quota of 46.50 lac tons given by the Government. It is noteworthy that Government had increased the time period for sale of additional quota of 2.5 lac tons which was allotted for the month of September, 2021, upto 31^st October, 2021. Last year, during the same period sugar sales was around 45.61 lac tons as against sales quota of 45.50 lac tons.
• Against a requirement of 459 Cr ltr for 10% ethanol blending, OMCs have so far allocated about 366 Cr ltr of ethanol for supply in ESY 2021-22. Further, OMCs had floated the 3^rd EOI indicating requirement of about 94 Cr ltr on 25^th December, 2021, for which about 30 Cr ltrs of offers have been received by them. Currently, OMCs are examining the bids and are expected to make the allocations in a few days’ time.
• Owing to fall in global prices of raw sugar, not much export contracts happened in the last one month or so, beyond the 38 – 40 lakh tons of export contracts which have already been signed. Since almost 9 months are left for the current season, mills are still waiting for the opportune time to enter into further export contracts.