INDIA EXPORTS
June 1st, 2001
BY SWINEETHA DIAS WICKRAMANAYAKE
THE HIGH production cost of sugar within India is a major stumbling block to the export of an existing large surplus, the country's Minister of Food and Civil Supplies, Shanta Kumar has said at a press conference. He claimed that countries such as China and Cuba offered sugar at much lower price in the international market. The minister suggested that sugar by-products should be commercially exploited, for instance the use of ethanol as fuel on a large scale.
THE HIGH production cost of sugar within India is a major stumbling block to the export of an existing large surplus, the country's Minister of Food and Civil Supplies, Shanta Kumar has said at a press conference. He claimed that countries such as China and Cuba offered sugar at much lower price in the international market. The minister suggested that sugar by-products should be commercially exploited, for instance the use of ethanol as fuel on a large scale.
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