Wednesday, May 2, 2012

Biofuels in South Africa – where do we stand

"Furthermore, the focus of the new Strategy is not on commercial farmers but more on previously disadvantaged communities and emerging farmers which includes a development phase.  Where is the infrastructure in current identified areas where biofuel manufacturing is supposed to start soon and what is going to happen to the by-products?


In South Africa, the government is planning to place a quota and require that at least 25% of the feedstock used to fill the country’s upcoming ethanol and biodiesel blending mandate must be supplied by small-scale farmers."


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1 comment:

H Peltan said...

I have just read online that in Europe next year 10% of all gasoline sold in Europe must be bio fuel, presumably this will come from the food stocks of poorer countries?

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