Sugar industry expects government to scrap export duty this week.

Govt to take a call this week to scrap export duty on the commodity in the wake of forecast of a record output for the second consecutive year. We are hopeful that the government will very soon remove the export duty on sugar, said managing director of the National Federation of Cooperative Sugar Factories (NFCSF). Representatives of the NFCSF and the Indian Sugar Mills Association (ISMA) had met food ministry officials after the ISMA revised India’s 2017-18.