<h1>Food Secretary urges industry consensus on sugar export-quota rules, favors restricting allocations to mills that ship their own sugar</h1> The Food Secretary reported favorable sugarcane crop prospects and urged industry bodies to agree on export-quota rules, specifically proposals to restrict export allocations to mills that ship from their own facilities; the government requires an industry consensus before revising quota distribution. Sugar exports remain regulated via proportional mill quotas. Requests to raise ex-mill ethanol prices from B-heavy molasses and cane juice/syrup were deferred to the Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas committee, which sets prices. The government has removed the cap on diverting sugar to ethanol for ESY 2024-25 onward and allocated broken rice as feedstock, while awaiting official advance production estimates from the agriculture ministry.