Promotion of biofuels wont be at cost of farm produce

Sushmi Dey & G Ganapathy Subramaniam NEW DELHI

THE GOVERNMENT has decided not to encourage biofuels at the cost of foodgrain production. While a policy for biofuels has been cleared last week and targets have been set to step up diesel blending, senior government officials are of the view that no foodgrain or oil-seed should be used for producing biofuels.