TNPSC Thervupettagam

India’s sugar shipments

March 29 , 2023 478 days 438 0
  • 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).

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