In a written response to a query in Rajya Sabha on Monday, Minister of State for Petroleum & Natural Gas Suresh Gopi said “The target of 20 per cent ethanol blending has not
An additional 55 LT of 100% broken rice will be auctioned and may go to ethanol distilleries. By Prabhudatta Mishra As the Centre scales up grain-based ethanol production to
Food Corporation of India (FCI) and World Food Programme (WFP) have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) for the supply of rice in support of global humanitarian operations
Top rice news today covers rice stories across the world. A young and progressive farmer exports 7 tonnes of nutrient-rich Labanya variety of black rice to Chicago, USA and
An alleged fraud estimated at 11.6 billion rupees has been uncovered in Madhya Pradesh, linked to a government programme that encourages the production of ethanol to blend with
Police say the accused allegedly ‘intended to divert the rice to a local rice mill and purchase cheaper rice for use in ethanol production, thereby causing direct financial loss
The ethanol blending programme is not a bad idea, in itself — it involves at least 20 per cent blending. However, mandating that ethanol producers source a fixed share of
Rice sold to small private traders, entrepreneurs, individuals directly from the FCI depot will be at a fixed price of ₹2,890/quintal until October 31 and ₹2,970/quintal from
Paddy marketing crisis is an annual phenomenon. Right throughout the past decades under successive Governments, farmers’ complaints about the lack of a better farm-gate