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Opinion
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Letters Bio-fuel crops This is with reference to the article “Bio-fuelling the world’s hunger” (Business Line, January 4). One appreciates his concerns to save the world from food scarcity. But, as part of an association of Jatropha growers, one cannot agree with all his views. Concluding that bio-fuels will hasten global warming, rather than the reverse, seems a one-sided opinion, not based on facts and logic. No doubt, there are regions that use food crop growing areas to produce bio-fuel crops, especially in the US and Brazil. But in most Indian States, especially Tamil Nadu, the government has a policy of supporting only the use of waste-lands for Jatropha and other fuel-crop cultivation. And there is no big automobile lobby in the State yet pushing for bio-diesel or bio-fuels. Had such a lobby existed, it would have influenced the government’s methanol and ethanol production policy in its favour. Also, thus far, the experience in the State has been that even corporates engaged in manufacturing bio-fuels have been careful not to sequester prime agricultural land for this purpose. At a time when the focus worldwide is on finding renewable substitutes for fossil fuels, any effort in this direction must be appreciated and replicated. S. A. Alagarsamy Chennai ***
The article “Bio-fuelling the world’s hunger” (Business Line, January 4) rightly pointed out the dangers in going in for bio-fuels without proper safeguards. The concerns expressed and the arguments put forward in the article are very real and all right-minded citizens should keenly watch the developments in this regard and, if necessary, awake the decision-making authorities from the deep slumber. Pichai New Delhi More Stories on : Letters | Non-conventional Energy
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