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It allowed use of each cane juice and B-heavy molasses throughout the general cap for ethanol making.
“There is no such thing as a proposal to permit additional diversion of sugar for ethanol manufacturing,” Chopra stated in a media briefing.
The diversion of sugar for ethanol was capped as the federal government expects sugar manufacturing to say no to 32.3-33 million tonnes within the ongoing 2023-24 season (October-September) as towards 37.3 million tonnes within the earlier season.
The federal government is selling the usage of maize as an alternative choice to sugar to extend ethanol manufacturing and guarantee enough provide of the sweetener out there.
Cooperatives Nafed and NCCF have been allowed to promote maize at a base worth at Rs 2,291 per quintal to ethanol makers this yr, he added.
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