An El Niño this year may not be a bad thing for sugar mills, particularly in eastern Uttar Pradesh.
“We have been having too much rain in September-October during the last two years. Late monsoon rain, along with water released from Nepal into our rivers, have been causing flooding of fields and affecting cane yields here. If El Niño results in the monsoon not being prolonged, it wouldn’t be bad at least for our mills,” said Avantika Saraogi, Promoter and Business Lead-New Initiatives of Balrampur Chini Mills Ltd (BCML).
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