Odisha planning to supply broken rice for ethanol production for petrol blending
Bhubaneswar, Sept 9 The Odisha government is planning to supply broken rice for ethanol production, with more farmers taking up paddy cultivation following an increase in the procurement rate, officials said on Tuesday.
The state has the main ethanol plant in Bargarh district, which uses both rice grain and rice straw to produce the item for fuel blending, they said.
There are smaller ethanol plants in the state as well, utilising grain feedstock, with the Food Corporation of India allocating surplus rice to them for the ethanol blended petrol programme.
A discussion regarding the proposal was held at the first meeting of the Inter-Ministerial Committee for procurement for the Kharif 2025-26 season on Monday, officials said.
The meeting, chaired by Deputy CM KV Singh Deo, who is in charge of the Agriculture and Farmer Empowerment Department, discussed the preparation of a roadmap for post-paddy purchase management, they said.
The government has planned to procure the Kharif crops by the end of November.
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