Diversion of maize for biofuel has turned India from a surplus producer and exporter to an importer of the feed grain. There ...

Apart from a thrust on maize and other non-food biomass sources, differential ethanol fuel pricing and R&D push will help ...

Nagpur: Farmers in Gadchiroli, a district hit by Naxalism and yearly deluges, are finding maize as an option to tackle dry ...

India achieved higher production of ethanol from grains like maize, compared to sugar, after the government’s push away from sugar for producing ethanol, Mint wrote, adding that the share of ...

There are some disadvantages to growing biofuel crops (such as sugar cane and maize) to be used as bioethanol ... petrol containing up to ten per cent ethanol without needing any modifications ...

The food ministry has allocated an additional 2.8 million tonnes of rice from central reserves at a subsidized rate of ...

But producing ethanol, which is made mainly from sugarcane and maize, requires land and water use that could have a larger climate impact than fossil fuel emissions. Meeting the blending target ...

The Indian government’s approval of 2.8 million tonnes of FCI rice for ethanol production raises concerns over its impact on ...