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IFAD supports bio-fuel
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UN body commits $ 1.5 million for research
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HYDERABAD: The International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) of the United Nations has committed $ 1.5 million funding for a three-year bio-fuel research-for-development project led by the International Crops Research Institute for the Semi- Arid Tropics (ICRISAT).
The project will facilitate farmers and entrepreneurs to utilise sweet sorghum stalks and cassava roots in producing ethanol and seeds of jatropha in producing bio-diesel.
Sensitising farmers
It will be implemented by sensitising farmers, research partners and other stake-holders in the production and supply chain of bio-fuel production, according to a press release from the ICRISAT.
William Dar, Director-General of ICRISAT said the project would support farmers of drylands with the latest research and research products and link them with bio-fuel market.
Thus they would be able to improve their income and livelihood from the bio-fuel revolution.
Cultivation
The project involves popularisation of the cultivation of sweet sorghum in India, Philippines, China and Mali and cassava in Vietnam and Colombia and jatropha in India and Mali.
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