INDIAN SUGAR INDUSTRY AT A GLANCE IN 2015 - 2016 Consumption in 2015-16 is estimated to be 25 mt. The country had produced 28.1 mt of sugar in 2015. Maharashtra, the country's leading sugar producing state, has projected sugar output to decline to 8.6 mt in the 2015-16 marketing year, compared with 10.51 mt last year.
The sugarcane production declined to 341.43 mt in 2015-16 crop year (July-June), as against 359.3 mt in the last year. Sugar output is estimated at a record 28.3 million tonnes in the marketing year ending September 2015, up from 24.3 million tonnes in the previous year.
Annual demand is pegged at 24.5 million tonnes. There are 716 installed sugar factories in the country as in January 2016, with sufficient crushing capacity to produce around 330 lakh MT of sugar. This comprises both private and co-operative units.
