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Mandya, known arsenic the land of sugar, continues to play a pivotal relation successful the country’s biofuel sector, contributing importantly to achieving the 20% ethanol blending people successful petrol successful 2025, according to S.E. Sudheendra, Chairman, Karnataka State Bioenergy Development Board.
Recalling the district’s historical contribution, helium noted that Mandya had supplied ethanol to Mumbai’s nationalist transport reddish buses arsenic aboriginal arsenic 1939.
Mr. Sudheendra was speaking astatine the Krishi Mela, which concluded astatine V.C. Farm successful Mandya connected December 7. The Board had acceptable up a stall to stock accusation connected its ongoing bioenergy enactment plans, and the projected Bioenergy Policy.
The stall, enactment up by the Karnataka State Bioenergy Development Board successful collaboration with Biofuel Park, Hassan, and the Bioenergy Information and Demonstration Centre, Mandya, served arsenic a roadmap for implementing the Board’s initiatives. Mr. Sudheendra said the consciousness and demonstrations offered by the Board would assistance span the spread betwixt farmers, investors and consumers, particularly successful the collection, retention and proscription of bioenergy resources.
Farmers and others visited the stall astatine the first-ever Krishi Mela to research opportunities successful the greenish vigor sector. The mela’s taxable — Sustainability done integrated agriculture — highlighted the synergy betwixt agriculture and the bioenergy sector, the Board stated.
Earlier, Sri Nirmalanandanatha Swamiji of Adichunchanagiri Mutt, who inaugurated the stall, stressed the request for nutrient and vigor information to accelerate nationalist development. He cited the illustration of an IPS officer’s parent engaged successful farming to show however agriculture tin beryllium some sustainable and profitable.
Dr. Kumar, Deputy Commissioner of Mandya; Nandini K.R., CEO, Zilla Panchayat; Mallikarjun Baldandi, Superintendent of Police; Shivashankar L., Managing Director of the Board; Dr. A.C. Girish, Coordinator, Biofuel Park; Dr. Rupesh, BRIDC Coordinator; and different officials were present.
