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- Sugar first, fuel next: Getting the 2026-27 balance rightby Uppal Shah on November 15, 2026
The 2026-27 season has begun with two decisions that, read together, say a great deal about how India intends to manage a tight sugar year. The first is the Government’s direction that no sugar shall be diverted for ethanol during the Ethanol Supply Year (ESY) 2026-27, which runs from November […]
- The Table Before the Tank: Who carries India’s ethanol nowby Uppal Shah on November 8, 2026
There is a quiet irony in this year’s ethanol tender. The blending programme that sugar mills nursed through its early years is now set to run, for an entire supply year, without a single litre from cane juice or B-heavy molasses. On 16th October, 2026, the oil marketing companies invited offers […]
- Sugar flows north: The price of a stalled seasonby Uppal Shah on November 1, 2026
Every sugar trader carries a mental map of how sugar moves across India. For as long as most of us have been in this business, the arrows on that map have been familiar ones. This week, quietly and almost without announcement, one of those arrows turned around. The talk of the Maharashtra market is […]


















