Shree Renuka Sugars (up 3.07%), Bajaj Hindusthan Sugar and Industries (up 2.73%), Simbhaoli Sugar Mills (up 2.40%), DCM Shriram Industries (up 1.44%), EID Parry (India) (up 1.43%), and Balrampur Chini Mills (up 1.41%), rose.
Estimates of a deficit for the second straight year boosted sugar prices. The government said the worst annual monsoon rains in 37 years could lead to further imports of sugar going into 2010.
In Kolhapur, a key market in top sugar producer Maharashtra, the price of the most traded S-variety sugar jumped by 5.3% to Rs 3,353 per 100 kilogram, breaching its earlier peak of Rs 3,185 on Saturday, 31 October 2009.
Ashok Jain, president of the Bombay Sugar Merchants Association was quoted by the media as saying that millers have started raising quotes, anticipating lower production. Ex-mill prices have jumped significantly in last one week, he added.
India is likely to produce 16 million tonnes of sugar in 2009/10 and consume 22.5-23.0 million tonnes, Farm Minister Sharad Pawar said on Wednesday, 4 November 2009, at the annual Economic Editors Conference. He said that as at 1 October 2009, the start of the new sugar year, the government had sugar stocks of 2.2 million tonnes.
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