From the 2009 country biofuel reports of the Global Agricultural Information Network (GAIN) of the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), some of the highlights of the biofuels situation in India are: (1) The main drivers for India's national biofuels policy are: energy security, use of environment-friendly biofuels (low greenhouse gas emissions), utilization of marginalized, unproductive land for feedstock cultivation, alternative usage of crops for biofuel feedstocks and rural development; (2) The Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas launched its mandate for 5% ethanol blends in gasoline (E5), in 9 out of 29 states and in 4 out of 6 Union Territories; for biodiesel, a "biodiesel purchase policy" requires oil companies to purchase biodiesel at a predetermined price, for (5%) blending into high-speed diesel; (3) As the world's leading producer of sugarcane and sugar, India is promoting the use of molasses (a by-product of sugar production) as feedstock for biofuel ethanol production; (4) In line with its April 2003 National Mission on Biodiesel which identifies Jatropha as the most suitable biodiesel feestock, the government's Planning Comission set an ambitious target to plant Jatropha on 11.2 to 13.4 million hectares of land (presumably "wastelands"). The objective is to produce sufficient biodiesel for a target B20 (20% biodiesel blend) mandate; (5) A new draft National Biofuel Policy formulated by the Ministry of New and Renewable Energy was approved by the Cabinet Committee in September 2008..