Centre to Soon Initiate Process for Making Ethanol from Biomass: Gadkari
(FirstPost.com) The Centre would soon initiate measures to make ethanol out of biomass that would create “tremendous demand for farm waste”, Union Minister Nitin Gadkari said.
A Cabinet note on making ethanol out of biomass like wheat, cotton and rice straw will be moved in the coming weeks which will allow blending of this bio-fuel into petroleum to 22.5 per cent as against 10 per cent done currently, he said here.
“The move will also create tremendous demand for farm waste. Perhaps all rice straw generated from the paddy-growing district of Bhandara, which is known as the ‘rice bowl’ of Vidarbha, can be used in making ethanol. At present the entire waste is being burnt away,” Gadkari said. READ MORE and MORE (NYOOOZ.com)