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Truckloads of sugarcane from farmers entering into a sugar mill at Baramati in Maharashtra. Photo by Manish Kumar/Mongabay

Waste to bio-CNG: The role of Indian sugar mills in the transition to cleaner fuel

by Manish Kumar 6 January 2023

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…

Truckloads of sugarcane from farmers entering into a sugar mill at Baramati in Maharashtra. Photo by Manish Kumar/Mongabay

In India’s ambitious ethanol plan, sugarcane farmers feel they’ve got the short end of the stick

by Manish Kumar 22 December 2022

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…

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