date:Nov 20, 2018
ushing in October last year. Due to the late start, sugar mills in the northern state produced 1.76 lakh tonne of sugar upto November 15, 2018, as against 5.67 lakh tonne produced till the corresponding period of last year. Seventy-one sugar mills were crushing sugarcane as on November 15, 2018, as against 78 sugar mills at the same time last year.
In case of Maharashtra, sugar mills started their crushing operations earlier this year, in the latter part of October. Accordingly, as on November