ARTICLE 2 #ethanol

Bharat Petroleum Corporation (BPCL) has entered into Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the National Sugar Institute (NSI) in Kanpur to collaboratively develop sweet sorghum as an eco-friendly feedstock for bioethanol production.

World Agricultural Supply and Demand Estimates was one of the most eagerly awaited reports of the year, and it lived up to its potential.

Kolhapur: The Western India Sugar Mills Association (WISMA), which represents nearly 100 private sugar mills in Maharashtra, has raised concerns over the procurement policy of oil marketing companies (OMCs) under the government’s ethanol blending programme.

Shares of sugar companies have witnessed a mixed trend thus far in the financial year 2025-26 on the stock exchanges even as the NSE benchmark Nifty 50 and the broader Nifty 500 indices rallying up to 9 per cent each.

According to estimates, gross sugar output in the 2025-26 season is projected to be 34.9 million tonnes - up 18 per cent from current year's 29.5 million tonnes output.

Brazil’s expansion of corn-based ethanol is altering the economics of sugar-cane processing: the cheaper corn-ethanol route is making sugar-cane ethanol less competitive, causing cane processors to shift more of their crop toward sugar rather than ethanol.