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Zawya
12-03-2025
- Business
- Zawya
Indian mills sign contracts to export 600,000 metric tons of sugar
Indian mills have contracts to export 600,000 metric tons of sugar in the 2024/25 marketing year ending in September, but are reluctant to sign further export deals as local prices have increased, five industry officials told Reuters. The slower pace of shipments from India, the world's second biggest sugar producer, will support global prices , which are trading near their lowest level in three years. After halting exports last year to calm domestic prices, India in January allowed exports of 1 million tons of sugar during the current season to help mills to export surplus stocks. But as domestic sugar prices strengthen and are expected to rise further because of lower production and anticipated summer season demand, a Mumbai-based dealer with a global trading firm said, exports had slowed this month after picking up last month. All the sources declined to be named because they were not authorised to speak to the press. India's sugar output for the 2024/25 marketing year is expected to fall to 25.8 million tons compared to annual consumption of 29 million tons. Consumption of cold drinks and ice cream rises in India during the summer months, roughly from mid-March to mid-June, boosting demand for sugar to sweeten them. Mills have dispatched around 250,000 tons of the 600,000 tons in export contracts signed since January, another New-Delhi based dealer said. Indian prices of low-quality white sugar are hovering nearly $20 per ton above London futures, prompting buyers to source better-quality Brazilian sugar that is available at the same price, said another Mumbai-based dealer with a trade house. India, which sells sugar to countries including Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Indonesia, Sri Lanka and the United Arab Emirates, was the world's No. 2 exporter during the five years to 2022-23, with volumes averaging 6.8 million tons annually. Despite the current slowdown, mills will be able to export the entire quota of 1 million tons, said Prakash Naiknavare, managing director of the National Federation of Cooperative Sugar Factories Ltd. "Mills have plenty of time. They can export sugar anytime they find a good price until the end of September," Naiknavare said. (Reporting by Rajendra Jadhav; editing by Barbara Lewis)
Reuters
12-03-2025
- Business
- Reuters
Indian mills sign contracts to export 600,000 metric tons of sugar
MUMBAI, March 12 (Reuters) - Indian mills have contracts to export 600,000 metric tons of sugar in the 2024/25 marketing year ending in September, but are reluctant to sign further export deals as local prices have increased, five industry officials told Reuters. The slower pace of shipments from India, the world's second biggest sugar producer, will support global prices , , which are trading near their lowest level in three years. After halting exports last year to calm domestic prices, India in January allowed exports of 1 million tons of sugar during the current season to help mills to export surplus stocks. But as domestic sugar prices strengthen and are expected to rise further because of lower production and anticipated summer season demand, a Mumbai-based dealer with a global trading firm said, exports had slowed this month after picking up last month. All the sources declined to be named because they were not authorised to speak to the press. India's sugar output for the 2024/25 marketing year is expected to fall to 25.8 million tons compared to annual consumption of 29 million tons. Consumption of cold drinks and ice cream rises in India during the summer months, roughly from mid-March to mid-June, boosting demand for sugar to sweeten them. Mills have dispatched around 250,000 tons of the 600,000 tons in export contracts signed since January, another New-Delhi based dealer said. Indian prices of low-quality white sugar are hovering nearly $20 per ton above London futures, prompting buyers to source better-quality Brazilian sugar that is available at the same price, said another Mumbai-based dealer with a trade house. India, which sells sugar to countries including Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Indonesia, Sri Lanka and the United Arab Emirates, was the world's No. 2 exporter during the five years to 2022-23, with volumes averaging 6.8 million tons annually. Despite the current slowdown, mills will be able to export the entire quota of 1 million tons, said Prakash Naiknavare, managing director of the National Federation of Cooperative Sugar Factories Ltd. "Mills have plenty of time. They can export sugar anytime they find a good price until the end of September," Naiknavare said. Get a look at the day ahead in U.S. and global markets with the Morning Bid U.S. newsletter. Sign up here.
Reuters
12-02-2025
- Business
- Reuters
India seen struggling to fulfil sugar export quota, industry sources say
DUBAI, Feb 12 (Reuters) - India has exported up to 500,000 metric tons of sugar so far this season, but the pace is already slowing, and it may struggle to fulfil the one million tons allowed by the government, trade and industry sources said on Wednesday. "There are fears that the one million (ton) quota could actually be reduced," Prakash Naiknavare, managing director of the National Federation of Cooperative Sugar Factories, told Reuters on the sidelines of the annual Dubai Sugar Conference. India last month allowed exports of 1 million metric tons of sugar during the current season to September 2025 to help mills of the world's second-biggest producer export surplus stocks and prop up local prices. Naiknavare said exports so far had totalled around 500,000 tons and have mainly focused on neighboring countries Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, and Nepal, as well as Eastern Africa. Shashikant Pandhare, head of research at Meir India, put exports so far as only 400,000 tons at most and added the pace was slowing down. He noted mill closures in northern India and struggles elsewhere due to poor harvest conditions. The closures suggest India will produce less sugar than initially estimated and have lifted local prices, making India less competitive on global export markets. "I think at most 700,000 tons will be exported by September but I doubt the government will make any changes to the quota," he told Reuters. Pandhare said there has been a surge in demand from countries with significant Muslim populations, such as Tanzania and Bangladesh, in anticipation of Ramadan, which is set to begin around February 28. Sanjeev Mishra, the chief executive officer of Tanzania's Kagera Sugar, said, however, that Indian exporters were currently offering at "unrealistic prices" compared to other global sources. India's decision to allow sugar exports this season was a surprise to some traders with stocks expected to fall this season following crop problems. Ashwini Srivastava, joint secretary in India's Department of Food and Public Distribution, told the conference that stocks were set to fall to six million tons by the end of this season, down from eight million a year earlier. Trader and industry sources, however, said the outlook for the 2025/26 cane crop was currently more favourable. Anup Kumar, managing director of Sucden India told Reuters there was a "very good crop coming" although the size was not yet clear. He estimated, however, that only around 150,000 tons had been exported so far, mostly to countries around the Indian Ocean. Get a look at the day ahead in U.S. and global markets with the Morning Bid U.S. newsletter. Sign up here.
