National Policy on Biofuels, 2018-2

•It expands the scope of raw material for ethanol production by allowing use of sugarcane juice, sugar containing materials like sugar beet, sweet sorghum, starch containing materials like corn, cassava, damaged food grains like wheat, broken rice, rotten potatoes which are unfit for human consumption.
•Objective:
•To achieve 20% ethanol-blending and 5% biodiesel-blending by the year 2030.
•It also expands the scope of feedstock for ethanol production and has provided for incentives for production of advanced biofuels.