India is unlikely to face any immediate sugar shortage, as domestic stocks are expected to be sufficient to meet demand until the next crus...

The government has not decided to increase ethanol blending in petrol beyond twenty percent. Any future increase will follow scientific stu...

India might need to boost rice-based ethanol production for E20 fuel blending by 2026-27. El Nino's impact on sugarcane and maize crops cou...

The Economic Survey warns that India's biofuel mandates, particularly for ethanol, risk distorting cropping patterns and food prices. While...

India's biofuel push, particularly E20 fuel, is impacting food prices. Wheat and its products have seen a 10% price increase due to maize d...

Maize, diverted for ethanol production, has caused poultry feed costs to go up, impacted cooking oil prices, and reduced oilseed farmers' p...

India's poultry industry faces challenges with record-high maize prices due to ethanol production. Industry seeks zero duty imports and con...

"We believe that there's a great opportunity to support India's advancement in increasing ethanol production," said Alexis Taylor, United S...

The government wants to use maize to cut its fuel import bill. While this has strategic advantages, it puts a question over egg production ...

Government remains firm on not resuming subsidised rice sale for ethanol. Chopra encourages maize ethanol production and highlights the imp...

The rice sale for ethanol makers was discontinued for various reasons, including apprehensions about domestic output and high retail prices...

Food Secretary Sanjeev Chopra has said that there are no plans to permit additional diversion of sugar for ethanol production during the cu...

As sugar prices started to rise due to estimates of lower production of sugarcane in Maharashtra and Karnataka, the Centre capped diversion...

Broken rice and maize are the main components of poultry feed. The industry fears that the prices of maize and broken rice would spike in t...

Notably, India has set a target of 20% ethanol blending in petrol by 2025. This will require doubling of ethanol from sugar and quadrupling...

Maize exports are slowly picking up as Indian prices are competing head-to-head with those from Brazil, Argentina and North America.

India is emerging as a preferred destination for global maize buyers as the commodity here is cheaper by 25 per cent at $300 per tonne comp...