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Segment analysis

Sugar

Overview

Balrampur Chini Mills is the second largest manufacturers on the one hand and
sugar manufacturing company in India with delivering among the best sugar quality
4513.11 a cumulative crushing capacity of 76500 standards on the other.
tonnes of cane per day.
The Company has eight manufacturing
The business is the largest within the plants in Eastern Uttar Pradesh and two
Company and a platform that generates in Central Uttar Pradesh. Most plants are
value for downstream businesses like proximate, facilitating economies of cane
ethanol and co-generation. Over the procurement, resource transfer and logistics.
C crore, Revenues, 2019-20, years, the Company has earned respect
C3821.59 crore in 2018-19
for being one of the most efficient sugar

Strengths

Scale: The Company is among the largest Energy reduction: Process efficiency
sugar manufacturers in Uttar Pradesh, helped the Company moderate energy
81.69% capitalising on superior economies of scale. consumption.

Geography: The Company’s manufacturing Quality: Efficient operations and stringent
units in the Eastern and Central Uttar quality checks enabled the Company
Pradesh has superior cane quality. to produce superior sugar quality,
commanding better realisations
Cane management: The Company
Proportion of overall facilitates the availability of superior seeds Farmer-friendly: More than 90% of the
2019-20 revenues from and quality agri-inputs to farmers, resulting Company’s command area is covered with
sugar in superior cane quality and one of the best early maturing seeds.
(77.78% in 2018-19) recoveries in Uttar Pradesh.
Evangelist: The Company is encouraging
mechanised farming in exchange for better
yields.

Operational highlights, 2019-20

y yCrushed 102.03 lac tonnes of cane (110.36 y ynitiated cost optimisation projects across
I
lac tonnes in 2018-19) plants
y yAchieved sugar recovery of 11.93%, y yUndertook cane development, enhancing
compared to 11.58% in 2018-19 yields in command areas
y yHigh recovery was driven by plant y yExported 2.6 lac tonnes of sugar (revenues
efficiency, effective cane management and of C548.68 crore)
growing coverage of early-maturing cane
varieties

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