Adityanath says UP has 7 months of sugar. Here’s what that calculation misses

On August 25, at an event in Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath told an audience that there was no sugar crisis in the state. UP consumes about four lakh tonnes of sugar a month. It had about 28 lakh tonnes in stock. Divide the second by the first and you get seven. Seven months of cover. And from October 15, mills would restart and make another 90 lakh tonnes.

Reassuring and easy to report. Which is what happened.