Prime Minister has said that India has achieved its target of blending 10% sugarcane-extracted ethanol in petrol ahead of schedule.
Blending ethanol with petrol to burn less fossil fuel while running vehicles is called ethanol blending.
Ethanol blending will help bring down the share of oil imports (almost 85%) and save a considerable amount of precious foreign exchange. Secondly, more ethanol output would help increase farmers’ incomes.
Currently, 10% of the petrol that powers the vehicle is ethanol. Though India have had an E10 — or 10% ethanol as a policy for a while, it is only this year that the government have achieved that proportion. India’s aim is now to increase this ratio to 20% by 2025.
Source: Hindu
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