Sugaronline India Report – The shortage of feedstock may slow India’s ethanol push

As India strives to navigate a transition to cleaner fuel and targets an ambitious 20% ethanol blending by 2025, a web of interconnected challenges emerge, mainly on account of supply of feedstocks. For the 2022-23 marketing year, cane-based distilleries have contracted to supply 3.90 billion litres of ethanol to oil marketing companies (OMCs). Out of