India exports 4.75 mn tonnes of sugar so far this year: AISTA

New Delhi: Sugar mills have exported 4.75 million tonne of the sweetener so far in the ongoing 2020-21 marketing year ending September, with maximum shipments to Indonesia, trade body AISTA said on Friday.

Mills have contracted to export 5.9 million tonne of sugar so far as against the 6 million tonne quota assigned by the food ministry



in January this year, All India Sugar Trade Association (AISTA) said in a statement.

Additional 4,30,000 tonne of sugar has been contracted under OGL (open general license) route without subsidy support.

Moreover, sugar export to Iran has started albeit in small quantity.