The government will soon launch a portal that will connect corn farmers with factories that produce ethanol, Home Minister Amit Shah has said.
Speaking at the launch of a portal for the registration, purchase, and payment of tur dal producing farmers on January 4, Shah said a similar portal would soon be launched by the National Agricultural Cooperative Marketing Federation of India (NAFED) and National Cooperative Consumer’s Federation of India (NCCF) for corn to help boost India’s production of ethanol.
“Prime Minister Narendra Modi has targeted 20 percent blending of ethanol with petrol. And for this, we need to produce lakhs of tonnes of ethanol. To help in this, NAFED and NCCF will soon launch a registration, purchase, and payment portal for corn farmers. Farmers who grow corn, we will directly link them to factories producing ethanol, who will purchase it at the MSP (minimum support price),” Shah said.
“Think of it like this: your farms will not be growing corn but will become petrol-producing wells.”
Source: Money Control
