India’s biofuel targets at risk as government cuts rice supply to distilleries

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Indian govt is seeking to boost grain stockpiles, now at a five-year low, and allay food inflationary concerns. Read more at straitstimes.com.

dealing a potential blow to the country’s ambitious plans to use ethanol to cut fossil fuel imports and reduce vehicular emissions.

The government aims to blend petrol sold across the country with 12 per cent ethanol, produced domestically mostly from sugarcane and rice, by the end of October. However, the government-run Food Corporation of India stopped supplying “surplus rice” in early July to distilleries that produce this biofuel.Get exclusive reports and insights with more than 500 subscriber-only articles every month

 

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