The government’s recent decision to allow production of ethanol by reconverting sugar has various types of outcomes to the sugar and ethanol production. Examine (200 Words)
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· The permission granted to ethanol manufacturers mostly sugar mills that produce it from their by-product molasses to convert sugarcane juice directly into alcohol and also use surplus sugar and food grains, such as wheat, rice and corn, for this purpose.
· The government has chosen to incentivise the use of these questionable raw materials by fixing relatively higher prices for the ethanol produced from them.
· This move would open the doors for the sugar factories to buy sugarcane and for the farmers to grow it just for producing biofuel rather than for making sugar from it.
· Considering that sugarcane, wheat and rice are water guzzlers, besides being input-intensive crops, their use for biofuel production is virtually an invitation to ecological disaster.
· The social cost of such water use may be far higher than the economic gains from ethanol doping of petrol.
· India has substantial potential to produce ethanol and other types of biofuels from non-sugarcane and non-food sources that are currently under-exploited, if not wholly untapped.
· The National Biofuel Policy of 2009, amended in 2018, lists rural and urban garbage, cellulosic and lingo-cellulosic biomass (agricultural dry matter), and crop residues like wheat and rice stubble amongst the suitable raw material for making ethanol.
· Promising results have also emerged from the ongoing research and development work on producing ethanol from a non-food and fast-growing bio-source like algae.
Vaishali 5 years
pls review
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Try to avoid listing out points and ethanol blending programme is not needed. Try to elaborate on outcomes on sugar and ethanol production. Keep Writing.
Tapasvi 5 years
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nalini 5 years
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Shivangi 5 years
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