Oil Marketing Companies (OMCs) have floated a second tender for the supply of 2.67 billion litres of ethanol in the 2023-24 supply year.
This time, however, bids were invited only from ethanol produced from C-heavy molasses, maize and damaged foodgrains.
This means ethanol produced from B-heavy molasses and sugarcane juice (both the processes in which the highest quantities of diversion of actual sugar take place) has been discouraged.
