Almost everyone is ok with the thought that biofuels are best alternatives to fossil fuel for now...then y India is not taking any large projects of its implementation same like Brazil and other European countries...???

Hello Kaustubh,

I am not very much convinced with your statements.It is not like that research and projects are not going on the right path, but the problem is of the globally economization. In Brazil, America and European countries, people are relying on single source like Brazil is dependent only on sugarcane bagasse, america is dependent on corn and European countries are mainly dependent on sugar beets, but in india we can not rely on a single crop. Here, neither we have enough land or enormous amount of crops that we can use for biofuel production.

However, Department of Biotechnology, Govt of India and CSIR, Govt of India has now switched over to lignocellulosic biomass as a feedstock for biofuel production. Here they are using wastes such as cotton stalk, bagasses, weeds, groundnut shells, waste papers etc to use their carbohydrate part for biofuel production.

Now, the need of the hour is to economize the process by producing indigenous enzymes, cheaper raw material and subsidies on various parts.

Great kaustubh you have cleared my doubts....but then will it be able to match up the volume that is there in the case of fossil fuel and as Beena has said we can produce different variants through Tissue culture and i guess by this we can make sure that with minimum investment we can produce these biofuel crops and make them grow in different conditions with the resistant variants...what do you say....

Yes I agree fully with Kaustubh as the project needs proper plannig as this is a project which needs vast land with plants which produce highest yield of seeds producing biofuel ; just for information following parameters are necessary to follow up;

1) Finding out land as much in ones reach

2) Contract farming with buy back agreement of seeds

3) Select high yielding plant and produce saplings of that particular plant by tissue culture method

4) Distribution of T.C. raisedplants

5) seed collection centres

6) crude oil extraction

7) Refineries

N.B. One has to consider at least 10,000 hectares of land for continuous production of a definite amount per day.

your views are right Mr. kaustubh...i think it has to do with like people are just satisfied with the current resources that are available and not planning anything for the future...and even the government is not interested to take any initiative regarding this...and what do you think Mr. Kaustubh is Biofuel the real alternative...or is it possible for India to  implement biofuel as the alternative?? what are your views on this.........and even i have seen the debate where people are saying biofuel crops can be grown on wasteland...is it true that it can only be grown on wastelands.....and what are the type of biofuel crops that are there.....

Great Issue you have bought up Kasutubh......already our farmers facing worst situations & they cannot simply just start using crops for biofuels though. They still need food for themselves and to sell. Status quo crop production is not nearly sufficient to meet these uses so if any advancement is to be made, a substantial increase in productivity must occur. Several major impediments to such an increase exist, including the current climate situation and water scarcity, and other natural resource depletion and degradation such as deforestation and poor uses of land such as to render them less fertile. These are already big challenges in themselves to tackle if production had to be increased for food alone. With the addition of biofuels though, that makes the task that much harder and if not done carefully and thoughtfully, growing crops for biofuels could make the situation even worse.......