Ethanol plants to be set up in all cooperative sugar mills: Minister
KARNAL: The Haryana government has decided to set up ethanol plants in all the cooperative sugar mills to improve their financial condition and help clear payments of farmers on time, cooperative minister Banwari Lal said on Tuesday, as crushing operations began in most of the mills across the state.
The minister made the comments while inaugurating the crushing operations at Karnal, Shahbad, Panipat and Kaithal cooperative sugar mills.
Since the ethanol is in good demand, it will help to improve the financial health of the sugar mills as the prices of sugar keep fluctuating, the minister said. He said that the government has decided to set up ethanol plants in all the cooperative sugar mills of the state as it will also help clear payments of farmers on time.
As per information, the ethanol plant to be set up at Karnal mill will have a capacity to generate 120 kilo-litre ethanol per day. A 60 kilo-litre per day ethanol plant has already been set up at the Shahbad cooperative sugarmill and the government has already approved setting up of ethanol plant of 90 kilo-litre per day at Panipat cooperative sugarmill.
The government was also considering to set up ethanol plants at all the cooperative sugar mills, including at Rohtak, Karnal, Sonepat, Jind, Kaithal, Meham, Gohana and Palwal.
Ethanol plant with a production capacity of 100 kilo-litre per day has been made operational at Yamunanagar’s Saraswati sugar mill. Even as the state government is yet to fix the Sugarcane Approved Price, the minister said that the payments of the farmers will be cleared as per the schedule.