{"id":292362,"date":"2019-09-18T05:24:03","date_gmt":"2019-09-18T05:24:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=292362"},"modified":"2019-09-18T05:31:59","modified_gmt":"2019-09-18T05:31:59","slug":"why-it-may-take-a-while-before-conversion-of-sugar-into-ethanol-takes-off","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/why-it-may-take-a-while-before-conversion-of-sugar-into-ethanol-takes-off\/","title":{"rendered":"Why it may take a while before conversion of sugar into ethanol takes off"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The government\u2019s recent decision to allow production of ethanol by reconverting sugar is a welcome step, but it remains to be seen how far the move will help address the immediate issue of burgeoning stocks of the sweetener in the 2019-20 season. This is because mills could take quite some time to make the necessary financial investments for conversion.<\/p>\n<p>Also, ethanol can be made directly from sugar only in the off-season, as freshly produced stocks of the compound have very little shelf-life when storage options are limited. <\/p>\n<p>The 2019-20 sugar season starts next month and peak crushing will happen in the first five or six months.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The government\u2019s recent decision to allow production of ethanol by reconverting sugar is a welcome step, but it remains to be seen how far the move will help address the immediate issue of burgeoning stocks of the sweetener in the 2019-20 season. This is because mills could take quite some time to make the necessary financial investments for conversion. Also, ethanol can be made directly from sugar only in the off-season, as freshly produced stocks of the compound have very little shelf-life when storage options are limited. The 2019-20 sugar season starts next month and peak crushing will happen in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[135,130,169],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-292362","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-standard-newspapers","category-newspapers","category-oil-gas-business-standard-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292362","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=292362"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292362\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=292362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=292362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=292362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}