An overview of the Sugarcane and Sugar Industry of India:
“Our Indian tax money is used to subsidize (through export subsidy) the sugar prices for Iran, Indonesia and Malaysian customers while our poor people continue pay full prices.”
The Irony
- Efficiency of Production
- Efficiency in Transportation
- Productivity (Yield / Acre)
- one of the highest in the world (Maharashtra sugarcane belt)
- Manufacturing of sugar
- Political interference
- Export Possibility
- Level of maturity in manufacturing and value addition
- extremely low
- this has to be addressed by creation of special economic zones (which can import cheaper sugar without any duties)
- or providing sugar at export prices (subsidized) so that local manufacturing of sugar based goods can start and grow.
Other products:
- Molasses
- Ethanol
- Alcohol
- Rum
- Country Liquor
- Jaggery
- Jaggery powder
- Sugarcane Juice
- Packed Sugarcane Juice
- Baggasse
- Paper Production
- Fertilizer
- Packaging Industry
- Disposable Cutlery