India may allow rice as ethanol feedstock again

In India, Live Mint reports the Indian government may again supply rice for ethanol production following the shutdown of several ethanol distilleries due to the lack of feedstock and that sugarcane-based ethanol production won’t start until October. The use of rice as feedstock became a controversial topic in May during the Karnataka elections because rice as feedstock was cheaper than rice for human consumption, but an attempt to rectify that situation by offering the rice for human consumption saw no takers.