Rotten potatoes, wheat to be used to make ethanol, says Dharmendra Pradhan

Rotten potatoes, wheat to be used to make ethanol, says Dharmendra Pradhan

Nation Minister for Petroleum and Natural Gas, Dharmendra Pradhan. Photo credit: Twitter. Vibha Sharma

New Delhi, July 16

India will start making ethanol from surplus and degraded food material like rotten potato, rotten wheat, broken rice and other biomass to achieve the milestone of 10 per cent ethanol blending with petrol by 2022.During the Question Hour in the Lok Sabha on Monday, Minister for Petroleum and Natural Gas, Dharmendra Pradhan, said Minimum Support Price (MSP) is not the only way to double farmers’ income, and the government believes value addition to their basic income will be an effective […]

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