Mint Quick Edit | Low sugar: why India’s ethanol blending programme calls for a review
India’s push for greater ethanol in fuel blends could have an unanticipated casualty: prices of food items that use sugar as an input. As domestic demand for sugarcane—from which much ethanol is derived—has grown, supplies seem to have fallen short, as reflected in this month’s rising market prices of sugar, which is overwhelmingly made from cane in India.
