produced 22.69 lakh tonnes out of a total production of 48.40 lakh tonnes in 1976-77. Their share was thus 47 per cent Maharashtra, again, accounted- for 61 per cent of the total sugar production in the co-operative sector in the country. And in Maharashtra itself the co-operative factories accounted for almost 90 per cent of total sugar production in the state.
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