Sugar exports from India Between 2017-18 and 2021-22 have soared from $810.9 million to $4.6 billion.
During the 2016-17 and 2017-18 sugar years (Oct-Sept), India’s shipments were a mere 0.46 lakh tonnes (lt) and 6.2 lt respectively.
They had zoomed to 110 lt by 2021-22.
The biggest importers of Indian raw sugar were Indonesia (16.73 lt), Bangladesh (12.10lt), Saudi Arabia (6.83 lt), Iraq (4.78 lt) and Malaysia (4.15 lt).
India has become the world’s No. 2, next only to Brazil (255.40 lt).