Following a policy shift toward the use of non-grain feedstocks for ethanol production, China-based Hainan Yedao Group recently obtained an inspection approval for its cassava ethanol production plant. The 100,000-ton ethanol production facility is located in Haikou, in the southern islands of China. The Haikou plant will also be producing 20,000 tons of (compressed) carbon dioxide per year as a by-product. The Beijing government is reported to have recently banned the use of grain-based feedstocks (such as corn) for bioethanol production amid concerns that these feedstocks might have a negative impact on food supplies. Cassava, being a vegetable crop, avoids the ban..