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Food Ministry gives nod to 185 sugar mills, distilleries for loans to set up ethanol units

23 Nov 2020 Evaluate

The Food Ministry said it has given in-principle approval to 185 sugar mills and standalone distilleries to avail Rs 12,500 crore of loans for capacity addition of about 468 crore litre of ethanol per annum as part of its efforts to achieve 20 per cent blending with petrol. In the last two years, 70 ethanol projects were sanctioned loans of Rs 3,600 crore. Apart from promoting ethanol production from sugarcane, the ministry is making efforts to manufacture ethanol using surplus rice with state-owned FCI as well as maize. The move is aimed at boosting ethanol blending with petrol, which currently stands at nearly 5 per cent.

It added that these projects would be completed in another 3-4 years, thus help in achieving the desired blending target. In the normal sugar season, about 320 lakh tonnes of sugar is produced against domestic consumption of 260 lakh tonnes. This 60 lakh tonnes of surplus sugar which remains unsold, blocks funds of sugar mills to the tune of about Rs 19,000 crore every year, thereby affecting liquidity positions of sugar mills resulting in accumulation of cane price arrears of farmers. To deal with surplus sugar stocks, the government is providing financial assistance to mills for the export of sweetener.

However, India being a developing country can export sugar by extending financial assistance for marketing and transport only up to 2023 as per WTO arrangements. For long term solution to deal with surplus sugar, the government has been encouraging diversion of excess sugarcane & sugar to ethanol for supplying to Oil Marketing Companies (OMCs) for blending with petrol. The move would not only reduce import dependency on crude oil but will also enhance the income of sugarcane farmers.

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