ChiniMandi submits White Paper on Draft Sugarcane Control Order 2026, recommends commercially viable reforms
ChiniMandi submitted a White Paper titled “Policy for a Sustainable Sugar Future” to the Indian government on May 20, 2026, recommending amendments to the Draft Sugarcane (Control) Order, 2026 after consultations with industry leaders, cooperatives, traders, mills, legal experts and farmer representatives.
ChiniMandi, India’s leading Sugar and Bioenergy news, and networking platform, submitted a White Paper titled “Policy for a Sustainable Sugar Future” to the Government on 20th May 2026, offering structured recommendations on The Draft Sugarcane (Control) Order, 2026.
The submission is part of a continuing engagement that ChiniMandi has conducted with industry and government over successive policy cycles. This time, as before, the Government opened a constructive dialogue with the industry ahead of finalising what is a consequential regulatory instrument, and ChiniMandi was once again invited to channelise that conversation. The platform is grateful for the trust placed in it by all sides.
The White Paper draws from a ChiniMandi Roundtable Conference that brought together a wide and representative cross-section of the sugar and bioenergy ecosystem. Among those who participated were Sh. G.K. Sood, Deepak Ballani, and Deep Malik from ISMA; Prakash Naiknavare and Sanjay Agarwal from NFCSF; Rahil Shaikh and Ketan Khevalkar of MEIR Commodities; Mohan Narang and Aatish Narang of KS Commodities; Husain Gangardiwala of NTC Commodities; Janeesh Patel of Samarpan Sugar; Sameer Sinha of Triveni Engg; S.L. Sharma of Uttam Sugar; Ravi Gupta of Shree Renuka Sugars; Mohan Ghatage and Rahul Ghatage of Gurudatta Sugars; Manohar G. Joshi of Jawahar SSSK Ltd; Swaroop Deshmukh of Shankar SSK; Charudatta Deshpande of Krishna SSK Ltd; Jitu K. Shah, Sreeraman Thiagarajan, and Hemant Shah of JK India eAgriTech Ltd; and Kiran Patil, representing the sugarcane farming community.
ChiniMandi is deeply grateful to each of them for their time, candor, and commitment to a shared outcome. The submissions that emerged from the table were then examined through an independent legal review by Adv. Rahul Desai, Legal Advisor to ChiniMandi and a recognised expert in commodities and industry law, to identify where proposed amendments may interact with or bear upon existing statutory frameworks. The final White Paper reflects that combined effort.
The areas addressed in the White Paper span several dimensions of the regulatory and commercial environment that shapes how sugarcane is grown, processed, traded, and priced in India. These include the financial architecture that governs cane pricing and revenue-sharing between mills and farmers; the structure and timelines of cane payment obligations; the provisions that determine how defaults and penalties are treated; questions of geographic spacing and long-term command area security for sugar factories; the regulatory position of allied processing units operating within a mill’s catchment; the nature of liability attached to administrative violations under the current statutory framework; and the direct interests of traders, dealers, and consumers as they are affected by the Order’s day-to-day implementation. Across each of these areas, the Paper puts forward specific suggested amendments, grounded in what participants across the table identified as gaps between the Order’s stated intent and its probable effect on the ground.
ChiniMandi’s role throughout has been that of a platform: to ensure every voice in the room was heard, to bring structure to a wide-ranging conversation, and to present the outcome with the clarity and rigour that a submission of this kind requires. The White Paper is offered in that spirit, as a constructive contribution to a process the platform believes the Government is undertaking in good faith.
ChiniMandi thanks all participants in the Roundtable for the seriousness and generosity with which they engaged, and the Government for its openness to this kind of pre-consultation. The platform remains committed to supporting a well-informed, equitable, and forward-looking regulatory environment for India’s sugar and bioenergy sector.
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