Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar has sought Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's intervention to decide the final price of ethanol for blending in petrol to ensure smooth supply of the product during the 2011-12 season.

In August last year, the government had fixed an interim price of Rs 27 a litre for ethanol under the Ethanol Blending Programme (EBP) for mandatory blending of 5% ethanol with petr