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Ethanol blending to benefit farmers

and country

Ethanol blending in petrol is yet another
important way of benefiting farmers.

Ethanol can also be produced from excess
sugar and sugarcane. It can also be produced
using damaged food grains that are unfit for
human consumption, thus producing some
value even out of grains that would otherwise
be thrown away.

Diversion of excess sugarcane and sugar will
help in addressing the problem of excess stock.

Ethanol is a green fuel and its blending
with petrol also saves the country’s foreign
exchange.

Modi government has been implementing
Ethanol Blended Petrol programme under
which oil marketing companies sell petrol
blended with ethanol up to 10%.

This has been benefiting farmers immensely
because procurement of ethanol has shot up
manifold.

Ethanol procurement has increased from 38
crore litres in 2013-14 to over 195 crore litres in
2019-20, almost a 5-fold jump.

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