The center has given permission to produce ethanol from surplus rice currently available in Food Corporation of India
In Chhattisgarh, every year paddy is purchased from farmers at the support price
, after the requirement of the public distribution system of the state and rice is given to the Food Corporation of India every year, 6 lakh metric tons of surplus paddy
Has the economic resources of the state is unnecessary
to include biofuels in the new industrial policy of the state, the high priority list of industries
have been the biofuels industry specific stimulus package announced
along with four private investors for bio-ethanol plant installation MoU’s
Raipur 02 December 2020
Chief Minister Bhupesh Baghel has written a letter to Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi requesting him to allow the Center to produce ethanol from surplus paddy of the state. The Chief Minister has written in the letter that at present the sale of surplus rice available in the Food Corporation of India has been allowed to produce ethanol. In Chhattisgarh, every year paddy is purchased from farmers at a support price. After the requirement of the state’s public distribution system and rice to the Food Corporation of India, 6 lakh metric tonnes of surplus paddy is saved every year, which puts unnecessary burden on the state’s economic resources. Mr. Baghel has written in the letter that biofuels are included in the list of high priority industries in the new industrial policy of the state. Special incentive package for biofuels industries has been announced. An MoU has also been signed with four private investors to set up a bio-ethanol plant.
The Chief Minister has written in the letter that in the last 18 months, efforts have been made by the Government of Chhattisgarh to allow production of bio-ethanol from the excess paddy produced in the state towards the National Biofuels Policy, 2018 and its targets. At the April 20, 2020 meeting of the National Biofuels Coordination Committee, F.C.I. Permission has been granted to sell ethanol from surplus rice available in India. The amount of paddy purchased at the support price in the Kharif marketing year 2018-19 and 2019-20 in the state of Chhattisgarh, after the required quantity in the state’s public distribution system in the central pool and state pool and the rice supplied to the Food Corporation of India in the central pool There was also a surplus, which caused unnecessary burden on the state’s economic resources.
Mr. Baghel has written in the letter that the role of state governments is important to attract investors in the field of bio-ethanol production. Under the New Industrial Policy of Chhattisgarh, 2019-24, bio-fuels were included in the list of high priority industries and a special incentive package (Thamechwam Chwaspabal) was announced for this. As a result, in the month of September 2020, agreement was signed with 04 private investors to set up bio-ethanol plant in the state, which would produce more than 12 crore liters of ethanol per annum in the state from the next year, of which about 3 lakh 50 thousand. Tons of surplus paddy will be consumed. To use this production capacity, permission of the Central Government is necessary for the production of ethanol from surplus paddy.
The Chief Minister has written in the letter that under the National Biofuel Policy 2018, the National Biofuels Committee (Chhattisgarh) has been established under the chairmanship of the Minister of Petroleum and Natural Gas, through which there is a provision to allow ethanol production from surplus paddy. In the state of Chhattisgarh, if there is a real investment in a special area like bio-ethanol under the state industrial policy, then the capacity addition of bio-ethanol production will not only solve the surplus paddy of the state, but the FCI. There will also be a possibility of disposal of surplus rice. FCI By (e) the surplus rice stored in the states will be allocated to bio-ethanol plants. The Chief Minister has requested Prime Minister Shri Modi that the estimated surplus of 6 lakhs per annum after the procurement of rice in the state and center pool, accrued to the state of Chhattisgarh on support price.
