Gadkari Inaugurated Country’s First Bio Refinery Plant
May 8th, 2017
Nitin Gadkari, the Union Minister of Road Transport and Highways inaugurated India’s first bio refinery plant that produces ethanol from a variety of biomass in pune on 7 May 2017. Gadkari stated that such projects with help stage a great revolution in India’s agriculture sector. The project is located at Rahu, a village in Daund Taluka in Pune District of Maharashtra. The newly set up plant is capable of producing one million liters of ethanol per annum by processing a variety of agricultural residue including rice and wheat straw, cotton stalk, cane trash, corn cobs with superior product yields.