NEW DELHI: The Government has given additional three months' time till December to millers to undertake mandatory export of their sugar quota allocated for this year, a senior Food Ministry official said recently.
For the 2019-20 marketing year ending September, the Government has allowed export of 6 million tonnes of sugar under the quota to help deal with surplus sugar.
"Out of 6 million tonnes, 5.7 million tonnes of sugar have been contracted. And about 5.6 million tonnes have been moved from mills," Subodh Kumar Singh, Joint Secretary in the Food Ministry, told PTI.
Some mills faced difficulty in exporting during the current COVID-19 pandemic as they could not move their stock due to movement restrictions in some places, he said.
"Several mills faced logistic issues during the pandemic. So, we have decided to give some more time till December for them to export their quota," Singh said.
Mills have exported sugar to countries such as Iran, Indonesia, Nepal, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh among others.
