After a five-year gap, Maharashtra has overtaken Uttar Pradesh to regain its position as India’s top sugar producer.
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The state’s output for the 2021-22 crushing year (October-September) is expected at 138 lakh tonnes (lt). That is an all-time-high, beating the previous 107.21 lt of 2018-19.
This record production is attributed to three factors.
The first is the bountiful rainfall since the 2019 southwest monsoon.
The second is higher yields from farmers taking extra care of their crop.
The third factor is a huge jump in “unregistered” cane cultivation. The large “unregistered” area has meant that there is un-harvested cane still in the fields and mills will continue to crush till the first week of June.
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