Review of Literature on Financial Performance Analysis of Sugar Industries in India

This paper attempts to measure the economic performance of Indian sugar industry in terms of capacity utilization measured econometrically at aggregate level over a period from 1950 to2012. Till now, a number of researches have worked on sugar industry. In these research works they have concentrated on the areas of research related to some other sugar industries located in Tamilnadu and India, Social-economic consequences of the co-operative sugar mills, Sugar Production in India, Technical performance of the sugar mill, Economic conditions of sugar mills in India, Cost-Benefit Analysis of Indian sugar mills, Financial Management of co-operative sugar mills, the development, problem and prospects of the industry etc. The importance of sugar factories in the rural economy and such other aspects of the industry also have been studied. The present research work has been undertaken to fill up those gaps by analyzing the financial performance of selected sugar industrial units in India.