Why Govt. Is Destroying Ethanol? | RN Bhaskar

[@ssyoagesh]

Informative video 👌

[@bhaskarkibusinessbaatein]

Many Thanks.

[@Akampan]

Sir what an insightful podcast.

[@bhaskarkibusinessbaatein]

Many Thanks.

[@prasannadhopate8513]

Mr Bhaskar I think there are enough outlets for sugar cane based ethanol. Apart from making IMFL, several intermediate chemicals can be made from ethanol. In this country, there will never be glutt of ethanol in foreseeable future. Whatever is produced will be consumed one way or the other.

[@bhaskarkibusinessbaatein]

You may be right. But when the government promotes one crop over another, it could skew the markets and hurt some producers. It makes a smooth market choppy, and costs more money.

[@bali208]

Sir....do you have any understanding of Policy? You should read "Watershed" book by Mridula. Sir it will be a disaster on water policy. Only Dry crop ethanol is sustainable... Else farmer will start playing Food-vs-Fuel! In short no Water Guzzling crops should be encouraged for Ethanol production. Let industry produce it & be used by private, sell it to private players: but Government should not buy a drop of Ethanol made from Sugarcane and Paddy!

[@njain1983]

India has already surpassed US interms of % Ethanol blending even though we started years later Maize is less water intensive crop than Sugarcane. We need to conserve ground water India's plan is to reach 20% blending, there is enough demand for Ethanol from BOTH sugar and maize sourced Ethanol. Maize prices have indeed risen because of demand from Ethanol industry but it is a short term effect due to supply-demand imbalance. Farmers are being encouraged (MSP increased) to move from water intensive paddy/other crops to Maize. Once the produce comes online, maize prices should cool down. Ethanol from maize produces a by product called DDGS. Oil from DDGS can be used to manufacture Bio-diesel. So there are twin benefits. My point is not to sacrifice the Sugar players. Yes they have made hundreds of crores of investments to support Govts EBP programme, but the video here suggests that Sugar players investments will go down the drain if Maize is preferred. Absolutely not! There is enough demand to cover for investments made till now. Yes, in future the investments should go towards Ethanol from Grains or 2G. Sugar is not the way forward.

[@kalyannnBH]

The current govt behaves just like Footpath sellers. There don't have a predictable policies. Investors don't trust them

[@ResearcherFromIndia]

One correction. Ethanol is also a hydrocarbon (C2H5OH). So you should say Ethanol blender with Fossil fuels (oil/gas)

[@rishavjaiswal258]

Good

[@debayanbasu8964]

Earlier people used to add water in milk. Now, ethanol in petrol. Wah modiji wah....

[@prasannadhopate8513]

Adding water to milk is adulteration. Adding ethanol to petrol is blending.

[@television-zc3in]

Thanks very much Mr Bhaskar for the insights shared. Let's hope the policy makers take the right decision that's a win-win for agriculture sector as well as the Indian economy.

[@bhaskarkibusinessbaatein]

Wonderful Thanks.

[@Jonam5696]

How much water is needed to grow sugarcane versus corn?

[@bhaskarkibusinessbaatein]

I don't know offhand. You can get the answer through a search on Google. You will discover that sugarcane, like rice, is a water guzzler. Corn is not. Many thanks. Take care!

[@ramananvenkataraman4594]

This fraud knows. Please look up the policy document abailable. It is because of the high water intensity of sugar cane. Only damaged roce from FCI used. This fellow is a failed journalist who has an axe tp grind

[@jasonscala5834]

You speak really well sir. ❤

[@bhaskarkibusinessbaatein]

Thank You.