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- The Department of Food & Public Distribution has modified earlier scheme & notified the modified scheme
- It is also used for extending financial assistance.
- The Government is also encouraging distilleries to produce ethanol from maize; & rice available with Food Corporation of India.
- It aims to achieve 20% blending by 2025 as well as to meet out the requirement of ethanol production capacity in the country.
- India will need about 1,000 crore litres of ethanol for doping in petrol by 2030 with a view to cut dependency on imports for meeting oil needs.
- The nation currently has a capacity of 684 crore litres.
- The 1st generation (1G) ethanol is produced from feed stocks such as cereals (rice, wheat, barley, corn and sorghum), sugarcane and sugar beet.
- The move is also being seen as a helping hand for the sugar sector and farmers.
- There has been surplus production of sugar in the country since 2010-11 (except reduction due to drought in sugar season 2016-17).
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