{"id":202455,"date":"2022-08-29T18:48:26","date_gmt":"2022-08-29T13:18:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=202455"},"modified":"2022-08-29T18:48:26","modified_gmt":"2022-08-29T13:18:26","slug":"reduce-production-of-sugar-and-diversify-agriculture-towards-energy-and-power-sectors-union-minister","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/reduce-production-of-sugar-and-diversify-agriculture-towards-energy-and-power-sectors-union-minister\/","title":{"rendered":"Reduce production of sugar and diversify agriculture towards energy and power sectors: Union Minister"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><b>Source: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The post is based on the article<\/span><b> \u201cReduce production of sugar and diversify agriculture towards energy and power sectors: Union Minister\u201d <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">published in<\/span><b> PIB <\/b>on<b> 27th August 2022.<\/b><\/p>\n<h5><b>What is the News?<\/b><\/h5>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Union Minister has said that India needs to r<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">educe the production of sugar and diversify agriculture towards the energy and power sectors.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Note:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> A<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">griculture employs 65% to 70% of our population. But our agricultural growth rate is only 12%-13%.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h5><b>Overproduction of Sugar<\/b><\/h5>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Over-production of sugar is a problem for the economy. For instance, this year, India\u2019s requirement was 280 lakh tonnes of sugar. However, the production was more than 360 lakh tonnes.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The drought in Brazil affected sugar production there and hence Indian sugar was in demand globally.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">But this situation will not remain the same next year and this overproduction <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">will be detrimental to farmers as it would bring the price of the crops down thus causing losses to the farmers.<\/span><\/p>\n<h5><b>What is the solution then to reduce the overproduction of sugar?<\/b><\/h5>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In order to find a permanent solution to address the problem of excess sugar, the government is encouraging sugar mills to divert excess sugarcane to <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/understanding-indias-ethanol-blending-policy\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">ethanol.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This would not only reduce India\u2019s import dependency on crude oil, and promote ethanol as a fuel which is indigenous &amp; non-polluting, but will also enhance the income of sugarcane farmers.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: The post is based on the article \u201cReduce production of sugar and diversify agriculture towards energy and power sectors: Union Minister\u201d published in PIB on 27th August 2022. What is the News? The Union Minister has said that India needs to reduce the production of sugar and diversify agriculture towards the energy and power&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/reduce-production-of-sugar-and-diversify-agriculture-towards-energy-and-power-sectors-union-minister\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Reduce production of sugar and diversify agriculture towards energy and power sectors: Union Minister<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10317,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1566,3127,9],"tags":[3590],"class_list":["post-202455","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-economy","category-public","tag-pib","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704815300},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202455","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10317"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=202455"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202455\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=202455"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=202455"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=202455"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}