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India exports 7.75 lakh tonnes of sugar in 2024-25 marketing season: AISTA
Oct-13-2025

All India Sugar Trade Association (AISTA) has said that India is estimated to have exported 7.75 lakh tonnes of sugar in the marketing season that ended September. The sugar marketing season runs from October to September. Sugar exports for the 2024-25 marketing season in India were allowed on January 20, 2025. The total quantity permitted for export was 10 lakh tonnes.

According to AISTA, mills have exported a total of 7.75 lakh tonnes between February and September of the 2024-25 marketing season. Out of which, white sugar exports were at 6.13 lakh tonnes, refined sugar 1.04 lakh tonnes and raw sugar at 33,338 tonnes till September this year. About 21,000 tonnes of raw sugar were delivered to the refinery in SEZ, considered to be deemed exports. Of the total exports undertaken so far, maximum shipments have been to Djibouti at 1.46 lakh tonnes, followed by Somalia at 1.35 lakh tonnes, Sri Lanka at 1.34 lakh tonnes, and Afghanistan at 75,533 tonnes.

AISTA has requested the government to allow export of sugar in the 2025-26 sugar marketing year and announce the export quota by November 2025. It has also requested the government to follow the same export quota policy for allocation and exchange among mills as followed in the 2024-25 sugar marketing year. AISTA had pegged sugar export to be about 8 lakh tonnes for 2024-25.  

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