{"id":390496,"date":"2020-12-21T08:35:52","date_gmt":"2020-12-21T03:05:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=390496"},"modified":"2020-12-21T08:56:00","modified_gmt":"2020-12-21T03:26:00","slug":"centres-new-ethanol-policy-aims-at-protecting-farmers-nitin-gadkari","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/centres-new-ethanol-policy-aims-at-protecting-farmers-nitin-gadkari\/","title":{"rendered":"Centre&#8217;s new ethanol policy aims at protecting farmers: Nitin Gadkari"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nitin Gadkari, Union Minister of Highways and Road Transports and Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises, said on Saturday that the Union government will soon come out with a new ethanol policy aimed at protecting the interests of sugarcane and paddy growers. <\/p>\n<p>Speaking after dedicating 33 National Highway projects worth Rs 10,904 crore covering 1,197 km in a virtual event here, Gadkari said that the Union government is very well aware of the plight of the sugarcane and paddy growers. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Sugar and rice production are in surplus in the country and therefore the Union government intends to encourage production of ethanol from sugarcane and rice to support the farmers,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nitin Gadkari, Union Minister of Highways and Road Transports and Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises, said on Saturday that the Union government will soon come out with a new ethanol policy aimed at protecting the interests of sugarcane and paddy growers. Speaking after dedicating 33 National Highway projects worth Rs 10,904 crore covering 1,197 km in a virtual event here, Gadkari said that the Union government is very well aware of the plight of the sugarcane and paddy growers. &#8220;Sugar and rice production are in surplus in the country and therefore the Union government intends to encourage production of ethanol [&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-390496","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\/390496","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=390496"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390496\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=390496"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=390496"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=390496"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}