Years after Bihar banned alcohol, its active ingredient, ethanol, is finding a fresh use. The central government has approved 47 ethanol plants in the state, of which at least 32…
Sugar mills in the sugarcane-growing state of Maharashtra are experimenting with using press mud, a by-product of sugarcane, in producing bio-CNG, a renewable source of transport fuel. One of the…
Sahoo Thorat, 47, is a sugarcane farmer in Kalawade, a village in the Satara district of Maharashtra, western India. For the last 25 years, he has been cultivating sugarcane on…