date:Feb 10, 2014
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Sugar mills produced 11.54 million tonnes of the sweetener between Oct. 1 and Jan. 31, nearly 17 percent lower than a year earlier, a producers' body said on Monday, as a dispute over cane price delayed cane crushing.
India had produced 25.1 million tonnes sugar in 2012/13.
In some areas cane supplies are lower than our estimate. Four factories in the state have already stopped operations. Considering that, we have slashed production estimate by 500,000 tonnes, D.B. G