{"id":344961,"date":"2020-04-03T09:32:08","date_gmt":"2020-04-03T04:02:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=344961"},"modified":"2020-04-03T09:53:43","modified_gmt":"2020-04-03T04:23:43","slug":"biodiesel-industry-faces-coronavirus-heat-as-meat-exports-drop-sharply","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/biodiesel-industry-faces-coronavirus-heat-as-meat-exports-drop-sharply\/","title":{"rendered":"Biodiesel industry faces coronavirus heat as meat exports drop sharply"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bio-diesel units in India are facing the heat of the coronavirus disease (Covid-19) outbreak, as Asian and West Asian countries have stopped importing buffalo and goat meat, leading to a drop in animal tallow production, a key raw material of biodiesel.<\/p>\n<p>Tallow is a rendered form of beef or mutton fat, used as a feedstock by the bio-diesel industry in winter. \u201cAnimal fat or tallow is used by a majority of manufacturing units as other sources like palm oil are costly. The problem is that animal fat is a by-product of the meat industry. After the outbreak of Covid-19, meat exports declined and our plants started running at around 30-40 per cent capacity since December,\u201d said Shiva Vig, director, BioD Energy, a Haryana-based bio-diesel manufacturer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bio-diesel units in India are facing the heat of the coronavirus disease (Covid-19) outbreak, as Asian and West Asian countries have stopped importing buffalo and goat meat, leading to a drop in animal tallow production, a key raw material of biodiesel. Tallow is a rendered form of beef or mutton fat, used as a feedstock by the bio-diesel industry in winter. \u201cAnimal fat or tallow is used by a majority of manufacturing units as other sources like palm oil are costly. The problem is that animal fat is a by-product of the meat industry. After the outbreak of Covid-19, meat [&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-344961","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\/344961","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=344961"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344961\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=344961"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=344961"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=344961"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}