New Delhi, March 4 -- India will have sufficient sugar at the start of the next marketing season, which starts in October 2025, Deepak Ballani, Director General of Indian Sugar and Bio-Energy Manufacturers Association (ISMA), told ANI.

In a telephone interview, Ballani explained India would have some 60-odd lakh tonnes of sugar available as opening stock for the next marketing season, against the standard norms of 50-55 lakh tonnes.

According to him, the opening stock of the 2024-25 marketing season was 80 lakh tonnes. The sugar production estimate for 2024-25 is 272 lakh tonnes, which is some 15 per cent lower year-on-year from 320 lakh tonnes produced in 2023-24.

The opening stock of 80 lakh tonnes and 272 lakh tonnes of estimated pr...