Of the total permitted quantity of 10 lakh tonnes, Indian sugar mills have exported approximately 7.75 lakh tonnes of sugar in the marketing season that ended September, said trade body, All India Sugar Trade Association (AISTA), on Sunday.
The sugar marketing season runs from October to September; and the sugar exports for the 2024-25 marketing season in India were allowed on January 20, 2025.
The body also urged the government to announce an early export quota for the new season with the same export quota policy for allocation and exchange among mills as followed in the 2024-25 sugar marketing year.
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“AISTA has requested the government to allow export of sugar in the 2025-26 sugar marketing year and announce the export quota by November 2025,” a statement by the body said.
AISTA had pegged sugar exports to be about 8 lakh tonnes for 2024-25. Of the 7.75 lakh tonnes exported between February and September of the 2024-25 marketing season, white sugar exports were at 6.13 lakh tonnes, refined sugar at 1.04 lakh tonnes, and raw sugar at 33,338 tonnes.
About 21,000 tonnes of raw sugar were delivered to the refinery in SEZ, considered to be deemed exports.
The maximum shipments have been to Djibouti at 1.46 lakh tonnes, followed by Somalia at 1.35 lakh tonnes, Sri Lanka at 1.34 lakh tonnes, and Afghanistan at 75,533 tonnes, AISTA further informed.
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