Praj Joins ICRISAT's Sweet Sorghum Consortium
December 21, 2007| |
Praj Industries signed a memorandum of agreement (MOA) with the International Crop Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT) to become a member of the institute’s Sweet Sorghum Ethanol Research Consortium (SSERC). Praj Industries, based on Pune, is a biofuels technology company with a number of ethanol and biodiesel production plants to its credit. Under the MOA, Praj could use ICRISAT’s sweet sorghum research outputs, like testing of sweet sorghum varieties and hybrids and improvement of sweet sorghum farming systems.
ICRISAT Director-General, William Dar, said that the partnership will go a long way in enhancing the commercialization of sweet sorghum for bioethanol production globally. Through SSERC, ICRISAT promotes the technology for producing biofuels through public-private partnership. The institute hopes to benefit millions of farmers in the semi-arid tropics by offering new market opportunities through the cultivation of biofuel crops.
Read the press release at http://www.icrisat.org/Media/2007/media27.htm
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