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Ethanol Project For Rural Empowerment

By Mr Ethanol | March 20, 2008

A multi-million naira ethanol project, which is expected to help empower 5,000 peasant farmers, is being planned for Ekiti State. Dayo Thomas spoke with Mr. Tunji Awoniyi, project coordinator, on the project. Excerpts:

AllAfrica.com:
Fuel Ethanol Project
The Ethanol project in Nigeria is based on the e-10 policy of the Federal Government. Which means, 10% Ethanol, 90% PMS. That is what is supposed to be implemented now by the federal government.

And as at today, Nigeria is still importing fuel ethanol from Brazil, which means we are yet to commence the production or domestication of fuel ethanol in Nigeria. Our company, Crown Green Energy Nig Ltd. is at the forefront of this activity and Crown Agro-Allied Investment Ltd.

Our efforts are to domesticate the fuel ethanol production in Nigeria. The country needs about 1.3billion liter of fuel ethanol, and not a single liter is being produced in the country.

So, to meet this demand, we would require many hectares of agricultural materials, to be blended into fuel ethanol and into petrol stations. For the first time, the world has the opportunity to now integrate agriculture into energy, and when you do that it becomes a huge weapon to fight deprivation, either financially or otherwise.

By so doing, we would be developing from bottom up, rather than top to bottom. And the advantage of bottom-up development is, everybody is carried along because everybody is a contributor to the whole effort and you are rewarded accordingly.

This is not the case at the moment, particularly in the oil sector. It is from top to bottom. And that is why we now have the crisis we are now having in the oil sector.

Project Costing… read on.