Indian Sugar November 1952

It is regretted that the authors have after a brief survey of the general progress of the sugar industry in India compared the working of Indian factories with those of other sugar producing countries of the world and have drawn the conclusion that the technical efficiency of the Indian factories is poorer than most of the sugar prducing countries in the world against all accepted opinions an [...] The object of levying the proposed additional excise duty was he added simply to recover the loss which would be incurred due to the reduction in the ex-factory price of the controlled stocks of 1952-53 sugar the Government having guaranteed controlled price to the factories for this stock. [...] Unfortunately on the basis of the cost of the transport of molasses the cost of production of power alcohol in the Nasik Distillery would be well above the economic cost. [...] the Government the industrialists the technlogists the cane growers the merchants and last but not the least the consumers. [...] For the proper funtioning of the industry a regular flow from the point of supply of raw material to the point of consumption of the finished product is most essential.