date:Jan 15, 2016
Mills in Indias biggest sugar producing state want the government to relax its mandatory export target as dry weather cuts the cane harvest and curbs planting of the new crop.
Producers want shipments to be linked to this years output rather than the average of the past three years, Sanjeev Babar, managing director of the Maharashtra State Cooperative Sugar Factories Federation, said by phone from Mumbai on Thursday. The federal food ministry wanted about 190 factories in Maharashtra to ship 1.