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Centre advances target for 20% ethanol-mixing in petrol to 2025-26 | India News
NEW DELHI: Union home and cooperation minister Amit Shah on Saturday said govt has decided to advance the target of 20% ethanol blending in petrol from 2030 to 2025-26, appealing to sugar cooperatives to help achieve the target by ensuring that all sugar mills produce ethanol in two years, setting up multi-dimensional biofuels production plants and increasing efficiency of the existing sugar mills.
Referring to its quantitative growth potential where 1,000 crore litre ethanol would be required in the sale of 5,000 crore litre petrol, Shah said that increasing share of ethanol-blended petrol would reduce import bill of petrol and increase profits of sugar mills and sugarcane farmers in addition to saving the environment.
His remarks came a day after the cabinet approved modified Pradhan Mantri JI-VAN Yojana to keep pace with latest developments in the field of biofuels. The scheme aims to provide remunerative income to farmers for agri-residue, address environmental pollution, create local employment opportunities, and contribute to India’s energy security and self reliance.
Shah was addressing a sugar conclave organised by the National Federation of Cooperative Sugar Factories. He said govt is ready to support setting up of multi-dimensional biofuels production plants, underlining that number of cooperative sugar mills should be increased by mapping the area of sugarcane sowing across country under the 10-year roadmap.
“Sugar industry produced 38 crore litre ethanol earlier & there was limited use of it, which has increa-sed to 370 crore litre today,” he said.
Referring to its quantitative growth potential where 1,000 crore litre ethanol would be required in the sale of 5,000 crore litre petrol, Shah said that increasing share of ethanol-blended petrol would reduce import bill of petrol and increase profits of sugar mills and sugarcane farmers in addition to saving the environment.
His remarks came a day after the cabinet approved modified Pradhan Mantri JI-VAN Yojana to keep pace with latest developments in the field of biofuels. The scheme aims to provide remunerative income to farmers for agri-residue, address environmental pollution, create local employment opportunities, and contribute to India’s energy security and self reliance.
Shah was addressing a sugar conclave organised by the National Federation of Cooperative Sugar Factories. He said govt is ready to support setting up of multi-dimensional biofuels production plants, underlining that number of cooperative sugar mills should be increased by mapping the area of sugarcane sowing across country under the 10-year roadmap.
“Sugar industry produced 38 crore litre ethanol earlier & there was limited use of it, which has increa-sed to 370 crore litre today,” he said.
