KRIBHCO to set up Ethanol plant in Karimnagar

Karimnagar: Krishak Bharathi Cooperative Limited (KRIBHCO) has come forward to set up an ethanol plant in Karimnagar district. The KRIBHCO officials held consultations with Telangana State Planning Board vice-chairman B Vinod Kumar, IT and Municipal Administration Minister KT Rama Rao and NAFSCOB chairman Konduru Ravinder Rao in Hyderabad on Sunday. KRIBHCO chairman Dr Chandra Pal […]

Karimnagar: Krishak Bharathi Cooperative Limited (KRIBHCO) has come forward to set up an ethanol plant in Karimnagar district. The KRIBHCO officials held consultations with Telangana State Planning Board vice-chairman B Vinod Kumar, IT and Municipal Administration Minister KT Rama Rao and NAFSCOB chairman Konduru Ravinder Rao in Hyderabad on Sunday.

KRIBHCO chairman Dr Chandra Pal Singh Yadav, managing director Rajan Choudhary, and executive director VSR Prasad participated in the discussions and explained about the importance of setting up an ethanol plant. The KRIBHCO had brought this proposal for the benefit of the farmers in the district, who topped in record production of paddy and maize crops in the State.

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They also said that the availability of Mid Manair Dam (MMD) and Lower Manair Dam (LMD), two major irrigation sources, would be an added advantage for setting up the ethanol plant. Responding to the proposal, the TSPB vice chairman had assured all assistance for the KRIBHCO team for setting up the ethanol plant in Karimnagar district.

Sources said that the KRIBHCO team would be touring Karimnagar district on Tuesday to identify various locations for establishing the ethanol plant and work out modalities accordingly. It may be recalled that the ethanol production would be taken up from rice, rice straw, rice husk, rice bran, corn and maize.

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