India's 2021-22 sugar output up 15% year-on-year –industry
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India's sugar mills have so far produced a record 35.2 million tonnes of the sweetener in the current season to September 2022, the National Federation of Cooperative Sugar Factories Ltd, a producers' body, said on Tuesday.
Sugar season in India, the world's biggest producer, starts from 1 October.
Mills churned out 30.6 million tonnes of sugar between 1 October, 2020, when the previous season began, and 30 May 2021, the federation said in a statement.
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India imposed restrictions on sugar exports for the first time in six years on May 24, capping this season's exports at 10 million tonnes.
