The sugar industry in Maharashtra is one of the most illustrious and large scale sugar producing sectors in India. The Maharashtra sugar industry has been alone contributing round about 43 per cent of country’s overall sugar production; the speed of sugar producing has been enormous over the past some of the few years. The latest data on sugar production in Maharashtra shows that this state is doing better than the other states in the country. The sugar industry in Maharashtra is deeply admired in the co-operative segment, as farmers have cooperative ownership of the sugar factories. These co-operative sugar factories have been playing foremost role in the sugar industry of Maharashtra. The Maharashtra sugar industry has experienced an expansion owing to the diverse reasons, especially an urge to develop on cooperative principles and possibilities to strengthen the political leadership; besides one of the chief crops produced in Maharashtra is sugarcane which is instrumental to the development of CSFs in Maharashtra and hence there is an acceleration of economic as well as social activities.