ARTICLE 2 #sugar

As gross sugar (in terms of sucrose) production in the next season, starting October, is likely to be 36 million tonnes (mt), the government can comfortably allow 1 mt for export.

Shares of sugar companies have witnessed a mixed trend thus far in the financial year 2025-26 on the stock exchanges even as the NSE benchmark Nifty 50 and the broader Nifty 500 indices rallying up to 9 per cent each.

According to estimates, gross sugar output in the 2025-26 season is projected to be 34.9 million tonnes - up 18 per cent from current year's 29.5 million tonnes output.

Amid excessive rainfall in Maharashtra, Karnataka, and Gujarat, the sugar industry has urged the government to extend the September 2025 sugar release quota .I n a letter to the Joint Secretary (Sugar), Department of Food and Public Distribution, the West Indian Sugar Mills Association stated that due to excessive, heavy and incessant rains in Maharashtra, Karnataka and Gujarat, sugar lifting by merchants and movement of sugar transportation had been badly hit.

March NY world sugar #11 (SBH26) on Friday closed up +0.07 (+0.431%), and December London ICE white sugar #5 (SWZ25) closed down -1.20 (-0.26%). Sugar prices settled mixed on Friday. Sugar has carryover support from Thursday, when Unica reported that the sugar content in Brazil's Center-South sugarcane crush declined, signaling lower sugar production. The sugar content in crushed cane in the first half of September in Brazil dropped to 154.58 kilogram per ton (kg/ton) versus 160.07 kg/ton a year earlier.