FESTIVAL QUOTA OF SUGAR INCREASED TO TWO LAKH TONNES

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Shri Sharad Yadav, Minister of Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution has decided to increase the festival quota of sugar to 2 lakh tonnes during the current calendar year. This decision has been taken on request from various State Governments for increased allocation of festival quota of sugar. The State Governments and Union Territory Administrations have been advised to lift the additional festival quota and make available sugar to the ration cardholders during the festival period. Government has been allocating about one lakh tonne of levy sugar per annum as festival quota to meet the requirement of sugar for various festivals.

The production of sugar during the current sugar season 2001-02 (as on June 6 2002) was 178.35 lakh tonnes (provisional).