Team Blitz India
NEW DELHI: The Government’s decision on December 16 allowing sugar mills to use both sugarcane juice and B-heavy molasses to produce ethanol subject to a cap of 17 lakh tonnes, will provide partial relief to sugar mills.
The rollback of the December 7 directive of the Department of Food and Public Distribution asking sugar mills to not produce ethanol from sugarcarne juice and syrup followed representations by the industry seeking a reversal of the decision.
In a communication dated December 15, the department said oil marketing companies (OMCs) will use revised allocation of sugarcane juice and B heavy molasses based ethanol.
“Each distillery. sugar mill and distillery should supply ethanol strictly as the per the revised quantity specified. There will be no diversion of sugarcane juice and B heavy molasses for production of rectified spirit or extra neutral alcohol. All molasses based distilleries should “endeavour to make ethanol from C Heavy molasses,” the directive said.
