Govt announces bio-diesel purchase policy

  • 09/10/2005

  • Tribune (New Delhi)

Petroleum Minister Mani Shankar Aiyar today announced national bio-diesel purchase policy that will enable farmers and bio-diesel producers get support price of Rs 25 per litre for jatropha oil. It targets to bring one million hectares of land under jatropha cultivation to supply blended diesel within the next few years.