Sugar crisis: Bitter conditions need urgent correction before we have suicides  

November 14, 2014

We have too much sugar on hand but this may simply vanish if farmers take a holiday and switch over to other crops due to the lack of remunerative prices, and a bad monsoon ahead

AK Ramdas

The domestic demand for sugar in India is around 23 million and the projected production for this season, which just ended in September, is about 25.3 million tonnes (mt).

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