{"id":420652,"date":"2021-06-16T10:32:15","date_gmt":"2021-06-16T05:02:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=420652"},"modified":"2021-06-16T11:23:34","modified_gmt":"2021-06-16T05:53:34","slug":"centre-allocates-78000-tonnes-of-rice-from-fci-for-ethanol-production","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/centre-allocates-78000-tonnes-of-rice-from-fci-for-ethanol-production\/","title":{"rendered":"Centre allocates 78,000 tonnes of rice from FCI for ethanol production"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>Addressing a press conference via video conference, Pandey said, \u201cBy 2025, total production of ethanol\u2026 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.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe share of rice is miniscule and it is transitory,\u201d Pandey said answering a query about the government\u2019s decision to supply FCI rice to distilleries at a subsidised rate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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, \u201cBy 2025, total production of ethanol\u2026 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.\u201d \u201cThe share of rice is miniscule and it is transitory,\u201d Pandey said answering a query about [&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":[130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-420652","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/420652","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=420652"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/420652\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=420652"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=420652"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=420652"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}