The Indian Sugar Mills Association (ISMA) has called on the government to take immediate policy action to support the struggling sugar sector. In an interview with Business Today, Deepak Ballani, Director General of ISMA, highlighted the industry’s key demands — increasing the share of sugar-based feedstocks in ethanol allocation to at least 50%, revising ethanol procurement prices to reflect actual production costs, and raising the Minimum Selling Price (MSP) of sugar in line with higher Fair and Remunerative Prices (FRP) and production expenses. Ballani also emphasized the need to expand ethanol blending targets beyond E20 towards E100, supported by Flex-Fuel Vehicles (FFVs), and urged the government to announce the 2025–26 sugar export policy soon to manage surplus stocks and improve li

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