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Informist, Thursday, Mar. 6, 2025

NEW DELHI – Of the 200 sugar mills in Maharashtra, more than 50% of them has shut operations for the season as of Tuesday, according to Sugar Commissionerate. Last year during the corresponding period only 38 mills had shut operations, the data showed. More mills closed this year due to lower availability of cane and a fall in sugar recovery rate. 

As of Tuesday, 102 mills were shut in the state and the highest number of closures were in Solapur with 41 units ending operations. Kolhapur had 22 units shut, Pune 12, Nanded 11, and Chhatrapati Sambhaji Nagar had 10 units shut.   

With fewer mills running, sugar production in Maharashtra declined 20.3% to 7.64 million tonnes as of Tuesday compared with 9.59 million tonnes a year ago. Meanwhile, the average sugar recovery rate in the state fell to 9.38% from 10.05% last year, the data showed.

For the current sugar season ending September, Maharashtra is estimated to produce only 8.3 million tonnes of sugar, against 11.0 million tonnes last year, according to the National Federation of Cooperative Sugar Factories. The federation has estimated the overall production in the country at 26.5 million tonnes in the ongoing season, down 17% from 31.9 million tonnes last year. End

Reported by Afra Abubacker

Edited by Akul Nishant Akhoury

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