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22/03/22 07:49 AM IST

Ethanol Blended Petrol (EBP) Programme

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  • The Government is promoting Ethanol Blended Petrol (EBP) Programme with broader objectives of providing boost to domestic agriculture sector, environment benefits, reducing import dependency and savings in foreign exchange.
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  • The Government is encouraging farmers to diversify from water intensive crops like rice, sugarcane, etc. to more sustainable crops like maize.
  • Ethanol from sugarcane route is not sufficient to achieve blending targets and for other uses.
  • In view of surplus availability of food grains like maize and rice, ethanol from damaged food grains, maize and surplus rice with FCI has been allowed.
  • Government aims to create a sustainable market for surplus maize beyond its consumption in the domestic poultry industry.
  • Moreover, production of ethanol from grain like maize gives a co-product called Dried Distillers Grains with Soluble (DDGS), which is a very high source of protein and is also used as cattle feed/ poultry feed.
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