{"id":234780,"date":"2021-07-25T13:17:12","date_gmt":"2021-07-25T13:17:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/151.106.38.4\/2021\/07\/25\/up-becomes-largest-producer-of-ethanol-in-india\/"},"modified":"2021-07-25T13:17:12","modified_gmt":"2021-07-25T13:17:12","slug":"up-becomes-largest-producer-of-ethanol-in-india","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/2021\/07\/25\/up-becomes-largest-producer-of-ethanol-in-india\/","title":{"rendered":"UP becomes largest producer of ethanol in India"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img src=\/old_site\/http:\/\/new.nagalandpost.com\/cms\/gall_content\/no_images_650x.jpg><\/p>\n<p>Uttar Pradesh has emerged as the largest ethanol-producing state in the country.<\/p>\n<p>A total of 58 crore litres of ethanol was produced by 54 distilleries established across the state.<\/p>\n<p>According to the government spokesman, the state has manufactured 58 crore litres of ethanol, a solvent that is essentially mixed with petrol for environmental purposes, in the year 2020-21. In a major relief to the farmers, an additional payment of Rs 864 crore was sent to the accounts of sugarcane farmers from the sale of ethanol.<\/p>\n<p>By mixing ethanol in petrol, the Uttar Pradesh government was able to contribute to saving a total of 75.58 million dollars of India&rsquo;s forex reserve, giving a big boost to the economy in these testing times.<\/p>\n<p>Ethanol is a type of alcohol that is mixed with petrol and is used as fuel in vehicles.<\/p>\n<p>According to environmental experts, ethanol mixed with petrol may reduce carbon monoxide pollution by 35 per cent.<\/p>\n<p>It may be recalled that the distilleries of sugar mills and other units had produced a record 1.77 crore litres of sanitizer which was not only supplied within the state but also exported to other states.<\/p>\n<div>&nbsp;<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UP becomes largest producer of ethanol in India<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[667],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-234780","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234780","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=234780"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234780\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=234780"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=234780"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=234780"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}