Centre makes available 19.2 lakh tonnes of sugar for August

The Central Government has made available 19.20 lakh tonnes of sugar for August, which it said would be sufficient to meet the internal demand for the commodity during the month.

The quantity includes 2.20 lakh tonnes of levy sugar and 17 lakh tonnes of non-levy sugar, an official press release said here today.

The non-levy quota includes normal quota of 13.37 lakh tonnes, 3.13 lakh tonnes of white/refined sugar processed out of imported raw sugar during May and June and 0.50 lakh tonnes out of direct imported white/refined sugar, it said.

The release said the sugar factory shall sell/deliver and dispatch entire non-levy quantity including the sugar processed out of imported raw sugar released for the month of August 2010 within the validity period of the release order, that is upto August 31.

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