(EnergyAsia, November 6, Friday) — India’s estimated eight-million-tonne sugar production shortfall threatens to drive up the price of ethanol and biodiesel. Local production usually meets India’s annual demand for 22 million tonnes of sugar. But dry weather this year could sharply reduce the country’s sugar production to 14 million tonnes. The ethanol market could also…
INDIA: Sugar production shortfall seen to drive up global price of ethanol
Posted on November 5, 2009 by EnergyAsia