INDIAN SUGAR OUTPUT RISES IN FIRST FOUR MONTHS
India's sugar output to January 31 in
the 1986/87 season (October/September) rose to 3.66 mln tonnes
from 3.46 mln in the same 1985/86 period, the Indian Sugar
Mills Association said.
    Total offtake in the first four months of the current year
was 2.71 mln tonnes (including 241,000 tonnes imported) for
domestic use and 4,000 tonnes for export, against 2.81 mln
tonnes (including 993,000 imported) for domestic use and 3,000
tonnes for export in the corresponding period of 1985/86.
    Factory stocks at end-January were 3.05 mln tonnes (96,000
imported) against 3.13 mln (96,000 imported) a year earlier.
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