India went from a record 109.8-lakh-tonne sugar export in 2021–22 to a duty-free 1-million-tonne raw sugar import quota, mainly from Brazil, in August 2026 — i…
Under the Essential Commodities Act, 1955, the central government gained standing powers to regulate sugar's production, distribution, stock-holding, movement and pricin…
The 1966 Order created a centrally fixed minimum cane price and mill-wise cane reservation. The minimum became the Fair and Remunerative Price (FRP) from the 2009–10 sea…
Farmer-owned cooperative mills spread across the western and southern cane belts, linking credit, cane supply, employment and rural politics. The era made the sugar cycl…
Acting on the C. Rangarajan committee, the government abolished the levy-sugar obligation and the monthly release-quota system that had capped mills' open-market sales f…
A record cane crop, healthy stocks, high world prices and a policy preference for exporting rather than crushing mill finances with a glut combined to produce a record 1…
From June 2022 exports needed specific government permission and were capped at about 60–61 lakh tonnes. On 18 October 2023 the DGFT extended the restriction 'until furt…
Average ethanol blending in petrol reached about 20 percent during 2025, roughly five years ahead of the original target, and the government moved to nationwide E20. Cru…
With the retail benchmark up from about ₹48 to ₹55.70 per kg in a month and closing stocks near 35 lakh tonnes before the festival season, the government opened a zero-d…
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