The Indian Sugar & Bio-Energy Manufacturers Association (ISMA) said 107 sugar mills have begun crushing for the 2026-27 marketing year, with sufficient stocks to meet India’s annual domestic demand of 280 to…
D-Mart, BigBasket, Blinkit and Swiggy Instamart have begun restricting sugar purchases to 3-5 kg per customer as retail prices have surged 40% in two months. Manufacturers are preparing to raise prices by…
The government has revised raw sugar import rules under the Tariff Rate Quota scheme. Importers must now process raw sugar into white or refined sugar and sell it in the domestic market…
Sugar prices in Kolhapur fell 12.6% in four days after the central government approved the import of 1 million tonnes of raw sugar and tightened stock limits on bulk consumers. Medium-grade sugar…
The Indian Sugar and Bio-Energy Manufacturers Association (ISMA) said on Monday that no shortage of sugar exists and blamed speculative buying and stockpiling by bulk consumers for a 29% price jump in…
Sugar prices in India have dropped by over 10% in mill-gate and retail markets after a nearly two-month rally, following government measures to boost supply. The Times of India reports that industry…
India has permitted the duty-free import of one million tonnes of raw sugar under a tariff rate quota (TRQ) regime to tame soaring domestic sugar prices and food inflation. The move comes…
The Indian Sugar & Bio-Energy Manufacturers Association (ISMA) has signed an MoU with ICAR, Indian Sugarcane Research Institute (ICAR-ISRI), Lucknow, to set up an Advanced Centre for quality sugarcane seed production. The…
Most sugar mills are unlikely to start crushing 15 days early despite industry bodies promising the government they would, ET reports. The main obstacle is a shortage of migrant labour, which is…
The Indian Sugar & Bio-Energy Manufacturers Association (ISMA) and the National Federation of Cooperative Sugar Factories (NFCSF) have jointly asked the government to fully exempt sugar from mandatory jute packaging. They claim…
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