Maharashtra: Sugar mills sold ethanol worth Rs. 6,378 crore in 2024-25 season, says CM Fadnavis
Sugar mills in Maharashtra earned Rs 6,378 crore from ethanol sales in the 2024–25 season. The state achieved 99.06% FRP disbursement, with Rs 31,301 crore paid to farmers. Mills also exported 298 crore units of electricity, generating Rs 1,979 crore. The 2025–26 crushing season will start November 1.
Sugar mills in Maharashtra earned Rs. 6,378 crore from ethanol sales during the 2024–25 crushing season, according to details shared at a high-level ministerial committee meeting held at Mantralaya on Tuesday. The meeting, chaired by Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis, finalised the policy for the upcoming 2025–26 sugarcane crushing season, which is set to commence on November 1, 2025.
Highlighting key achievements from the previous season, CM Fadnavis stated that the state had achieved a 99.06% disbursement of Fair and Remunerative Price (FRP), with 148 mills fulfilling 100% of their payment obligations to farmers. A total of Rs. 31,301 crore was paid as FRP, benefitting lakhs of sugarcane cultivators.
In total, around 200 sugar mills participated in the 2024–25 crushing season, including 99 cooperative mills and 101 private mills.
The Chief Minister also noted that sugar mills with co-generation capabilities exported 298 crore units of electricity during the season, generating an additional Rs. 1,979 crore in revenue.
The committee also discussed strategies to promote mechanised harvesting and enhance co-generation power production to improve efficiency and sustainability in the sector.
The government also decided to levy (on sugar mills) Rs 10 per tonne (of sugarcane) for the Chief Minister’s (CM) Relief Fund and Rs 5 per tonne for assistance to flood-affected farmers.
Deputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawar, along with Ministers Girish Mahajan, Radhakrishna Vikhe Patil, Babasaheb Patil, Dattatray Bharane, and Sanjay Shirsat, as well as senior government officials, were present at the meeting.
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Source : Chinimandi
