Pawar urges PM Modi to raise sugar export quota by another million tonnes

Production of the sweetener is expected to be higher than earlier estimates

Days after the Central government imposed a cap on sugar exports at 10 million tonnes, NCP chief and former union agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar has written a letter to Prime Minister Narendra Modi to relax the cap on overseas shipments by a million tonnes as production is expected to be higher than earlier estimates.

In a related development, the National Federation of Cooperative Sugar Factories (NFCSF), the apex body of cooperative sugar mills in the country, in a statement issued today complained against the alleged unfair treatment meted out to the sugar cooperatives while allocating export quotas post the ban