Pune, Maharashtra: As many as 181 sugar mills in Maharashtra have begun the sugarcane crushing for 2020-21 season till 13 January 2021. As per the data released by the Sugarcane commissionerate, the mills have produced 501.17 lakh quintal sugar by crushing 516.54 lakh tonne sugarcane with a recovery rate of 9.70 per cent.
Maximum sugar mills (39) are in operation in the Solapur division followed by Kolhapur division (37).
Sugar mills in Kolhapur division registered above 11 per cent sugar recovery and mill in Pune division recorded above 10 per cent sugar recovery.
