{"id":575162,"date":"2023-05-08T10:18:06","date_gmt":"2023-05-08T04:48:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=575162"},"modified":"2023-05-08T10:49:42","modified_gmt":"2023-05-08T05:19:42","slug":"up-ethanol-production-hits-billion-litre-mark","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/up-ethanol-production-hits-billion-litre-mark\/","title":{"rendered":"UP ethanol production hits billion litre mark"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The ethanol production in the current sugarcane crushing season (2022-23) has hit the billion litre (bl) mark and is counting. At present the sugarcane area and sugarcane output is estimated at 2.85 million hectares and 235 mt respectively.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRising ethanol production is helping the sugar mills in making faster payments to farmers,\u201d said Additional Chief Secretary (sugarcane and excise) Sanjay Bhoosreddy.<\/p>\n<p>The mills have settled nearly 75 per cent of their cane arrears in the current season, he added.<\/p>\n<p>Uttar Pradesh is the country\u2019s biggest ethanol producer. A sugar by-product, ethanol is used for a variety of purposes ranging from mixing in fossil fuel to pharmaceutical and chemical industries. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The ethanol production in the current sugarcane crushing season (2022-23) has hit the billion litre (bl) mark and is counting. At present the sugarcane area and sugarcane output is estimated at 2.85 million hectares and 235 mt respectively. \u201cRising ethanol production is helping the sugar mills in making faster payments to farmers,\u201d said Additional Chief Secretary (sugarcane and excise) Sanjay Bhoosreddy. The mills have settled nearly 75 per cent of their cane arrears in the current season, he added. Uttar Pradesh is the country\u2019s biggest ethanol producer. A sugar by-product, ethanol is used for a variety of purposes ranging from [&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":[130,211,144],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-575162","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-oil-gas-the-pioneer","category-the-pioneer"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/575162","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=575162"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/575162\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=575162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=575162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=575162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}