date:Dec 20, 2012
realisation and higher sugarcane payment to farmers, ISMA has already requested government to increase the import duties on raw sugar from current level to the normal rate of 60%, so as to avoid cane price arrears during the season.
The association also hoped that the government would soon accept the Rangarajan Committee recommendations on reforms on sugar sales, which would help the industry in reducing losses on account of levy sugar procurement and removing regulated release mechanism so th