In order to facilitate mills to export maximum sugar from the country, to ensure maximum participation in export, to reduce transportation cost involvement involved in movement of sugar from one state to another for domestic consumption which will ultimately benefit the consumers, DFPD has decided to allow exchange of MAEQ quantity from the quantity of monthly release quota
In a notification issued on the 19th day of January 2021, the Department of Food and Public Distribution (DFPD) notified the guidelines to review export performance of sugar mills against Maximum Admissible Export Quantity (MAEQ) for export during Sugar Season 2020-21
Department of Food & Public Distribution notified modified scheme to enhance ethanol distillation capacity in the country for producing 1st Generation (1G) ethanol from feed stocks such as cereals (rice, wheat, barley, corn & sorghum), sugarcane, sugar beet etc.