September Free Sale Sugar Quota Set at 23.50 Lakh Tonnes

29-Aug-2025 04:38 PM

New Delhi. Directorate of Sugar and Vegetable Oil, a subordinate body of the Union Ministry of Food, Consumer Affairs and Public Distribution, has fixed a total quota of 23.50 lakh tonnes of sugar for all 582 units across the country to be sold in the domestic sector during September 2025, which is one lakh ton more than the quota of August.

In September 2024 also, a free sale quota of 23.50 lakh tonnes of sugar was issued. This time Pitra Paksha and Navratri are also in September, so the demand for sugar may increase somewhat. It is expected that after the first week of September, the activity of monsoon will decrease and business in the sugar market will start happening normally.

The free sale quota of sugar for the month of September has been fixed at 44,674 tonnes in Uttarakhand, 9,50,393 tonnes in Uttar Pradesh, 3797 tonnes in Telangana, 52,316 tonnes in Tamil Nadu, 2102 tonnes in Rajasthan, 42,598 tonnes in Punjab, 3262 tonnes in Odisha, 7,10,537 tonnes in Maharashtra, 49,309 tonnes in Madhya Pradesh,

2,81,646 tonnes in Karnataka, 51,187 tonnes in Haryana, 89,720 tonnes in Gujarat, 1185 tonnes in Chhattisgarh, 57,801 tonnes in Bihar and 9473 tonnes in Andhra Pradesh.

The demand and consumption of sugar often increases during the festive season, hence the free sale quota is also increased slightly.

The quota of 23.50 lakh tonnes may be sufficient to meet the demand of September and at the same time it will also be necessary to see whether all the sugar of the quota fixed for the month of August has been sold or some stock remains unsold.

September is the last month of the sugar marketing season. The new marketing season of 2025-26 will start from October. The industry has less previous stock left but still there is no possibility of a shortage of it in the domestic sector.