There is a need for the country to diversify agriculture into the energy and power sectors,Union Minister for the Road Transport Mr. Nitin Gadkari says, as India is a energy dificient country.
The Minister said “we already have energy shortage and are making an expenditure of Rs.15 lakh crore every year for importing the fuel and other petroleum products”. This is high time to diversify agriculture towards the energy and power sector.
Our agricultural growth rate is 12- 13%. India’s requirement for sugar was 280 lakh tonnes last year,while the production was more than 360 lakh tonnes. So the next move should be cogeneration to increase revenue from sugar. The industry should produce less sugar and more by products embracing the vision for futuristic technologies and using the power of leadership to convert the knowledge into wealth.
Therefore we need to divert production towards ethanol, as it’s requirement is very high. Now it is the time to meet out the demand of ethanol using technologies.
