In a new way plant-derived enzyme cocktails are used to break down orange peels and other waste materials into sugar, which is then fermented into ethanol, turning discarded fruit peels into cheap, clean fuel.

Sugarcane is cultivated on 5,732 ha in the district

Families making briquettes earn

Rs. 800 to

Rs. 1,000 daily

TIRUNELVELI: Making of carbon briquettes, a cost-effective alternative fuel from the sugarcane trash, is gradually picking up in the district.

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Raktima Bose

KHARAGPUR:

NEW DELHI: The Union Cabinet on Thursday approved the national policy on bio-fuels and its implementation. It also gave its nod for setting up of a National Bio-fuel Coordination Committee and a Bio-fuel Steering Committee. The new policy endeavours to facilitate and bring about optimal development and utilisation of indigenous biomass feed stocks for production of bio-fuels.

The national biofuel policy, aimed at facilitating development of indigenous biomass feedstock for production of biofuels, has been cleared by the Cabinet. The draft of the policy was prepared by the ministry of new and renewable energy (MNRE), the coordinating ministry for biofuel development, last year.