The Centre has allocated about 78,000 tonnes of rice from Food Corporation of India (FCI) stocks at a subsidised rate of Rs 20 per kg to distilleries for ethanol production for the ethanol supply year (ESY) 2020-21 (December-November), Union Food Secretary Sudhanshu Pandey said on Tuesday.
Addressing a press conference via video conference, Pandey said, “By 2025, total production of ethanol… it is going to be grain-based 740 crore liters and sugar-based 760 crore liters. So, overall, 1,500 crore liters supplies we are targeting.”
“The share of rice is miniscule and it is transitory,” Pandey said answering a query about the government’s decision to supply FCI rice to distilleries at a subsidised rate.
