Report Published: "Sugar and Sweeteners in India"
Total sugar and sweeteners volume sales declined by 5% in 2013. This negative performance, which was in sharp contrast to the increase of 8% in total volume sales posted by the category in 2012, was mainly due to steep price hikes arising from production shortfalls. These shortfalls were in turn the result of insufficient rains in the main sugarcane producing states of Maharashtra, Uttar Pradesh, Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh and Bihar.
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