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