As per information available with Directorate of Sugar, Ministry of Consumer Affairs,
Food and Public Distribution, there are 513 sugar mills in the country operating in
cooperative, private and public sector. As per the sugar season 2013-14, highest
number of mills i.e 159 were operating in Maharashtra followed by
Uttar Pradesh -119 and Karnataka- 61.
State-wise number of sugar mills operating during the sugar season 2013-14
were as follows:
STATE
|
Public
Sector
|
Private Sector
|
Coop.
Sector
|
Total
| |||
Andhra Pradesh
|
-
|
16
|
8
|
24
| |||
Bihar
|
2
|
9
|
-
|
11
| |||
Chattisgarh
|
-
|
-
|
3
|
03
| |||
Goa
|
-
|
-
|
1
|
01
| |||
Gujarat
|
-
|
4
|
15
|
19
| |||
Haryana
|
-
|
4
|
10
|
14
| |||
Karnataka
|
2
|
39
|
20
|
61
| |||
Madhya Pradesh
|
-
|
12
|
3
|
15
| |||
Maharashtra
|
-
|
58
|
101
|
159
| |||
Odisha
|
-
|
2
|
3
|
05
| |||
Puducherry
|
-
|
1
|
1
|
02
| |||
Punjab
|
-
|
7
|
9
|
16
| |||
Rajasthan
|
1
|
-
|
-
|
01
| |||
Tamil Nadu
|
2
|
24
|
16
|
42
| |||
Telangana
|
-
|
10
|
-
|
10
| |||
Uttar Pradesh
|
1
|
95
|
23
|
119
| |||
Uttrakhand
|
3
|
5
|
1
|
09
| |||
West Bengal
|
-
|
2
|
-
|
02
| |||
Total
|
11
|
288
|
214
|
513
| |||
