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India Starts Producing Ethanol From Sweet Sorghum
By Mr Ethanol | June 15, 2007
Business Standard:
The country’s first plant for commercial production of ethanol from sweet sorghum, a rainfed multi-benefit crop, has gone on stream at Mohammed Shapur village in Andhra Pradesh.
Sweet sorghum is like any ordinary sorghum but with a high content of sweet juice in its stalks. While the juice is used to produce ethanol biofuel, the grains can be used as food or feed.
The pioneering project for gainfully utilising a poor farmers’ crop for ethanol production has been implemented jointly by the Hyderabad-based International Crops Research Institute for Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT) and Rusni Distilleries.
The plant has developed backward linkage with sweet sorghum growing farmers, with the help of a grass-roots organisation called Aakrithi Agricultural Associates of India (AAI).
According to ICRISAT Director General William Dar, this major public-private partnership project blends the ICRISAT’s scientific capability to develop juice-rich sweet sorghum varieties with the entrepreneurial skills of the Rusni Distilleries. More.
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