India, Sept. 12 -- India plans to allow sugar exports from October 2025 as there is ample stock, a senior government official said, even as the world's second-largest producer of the sweetener doubles down on ethanol blending in petrol.

"There will be scope for sugar exports in the new season," Ashwini Srivastava, joint secretary at the Department of Food and Public Distribution, said at a global conference on Friday, without giving any estimates.

The next season's output looked good, Srivastava said, so much so that there would be enough left over after meeting local demand for sugar and ethanol. A record 4.8 billion litres of ethanol is likely to be produced in the new season from sugarcane-based feedstock, he said.

The prospect of h...