MUMBAI (Reuters) – India will allow sugar mills to use cane juice or syrup to produce ethanol in the new marketing year starting Nov. 1, the government said in a notification on Thursday.
The south Asian country also allowed distilleries to purchase up to 2.3 million metric tons of rice from the state run Food Corporation of India for ethanol production, the government said in a separate notification.
(Reporting by Rajendra Jadhav; Editing by Kirsten Donovan)
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