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ISMA pegs India's sugar output at 34.90 million tonne for 2025-26 season
Sep-12-2025

Indian Sugar and Bio-energy Manufacturers Association (ISMA) in its latest report said that India's sugar output is expected at 34.90 million tonne in the 2025-26 season starting in October. Overall, improved cane quality in Maharashtra, Karnataka, Uttar Pradesh, and Tamil Nadu is supporting a marginal rise in sugar output. However, these gains are likely to be offset by small declines in flood-hit regions, keeping the national output estimates outlook broadly stable.

Accordingly, ISMA has reaffirmed its projection of 34.90 million tonne of gross sugar production in 2025-26 sugar season, in line with its July 2025 estimate, signalling stability in output expectations despite regional variations, ISMA said while releasing a review on its preliminary estimates of sugar production in 2025-26 sugar season (October-September). The industry body will reassess crop conditions in October 2025 and release its first advance estimate in October/November 2025. ISMA had released its first preliminary estimate of gross sugar production for the 2025-26 sugar season on July 31, 2025, projecting 34.90 million tonne. The estimate was based on pan-India satellite imagery from the third week of June 2025, supported by field reports, and assuming normal monsoon conditions. It said that the early estimates were intended to provide an initial directional outlook for the crop.

A follow-up satellite imagery for Maharashtra and Karnataka was procured in the first week of September 2025 to reassess the crop condition, and based on this, ISMA has reviewed its preliminary estimate. The reassessment also incorporated prevailing ground conditions, monsoon progress, water availability, and other related factors for all the sugar producing states.

On Maharashtra and Karnataka, ISMA said favourable monsoon conditions, supported by abundant August rainfall in key regions, have ensured healthy crop growth and normal development. For the ongoing 2024-25 season (October-September), sugar production is estimated to be 26.10 million tonne, and the government has allowed exports of 1 million tonne of the sweetener.

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