China's leaders are exhorting thier population to plant non-food crops as biofuel raw materials, according to AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE quoted in The standard on line.
Sorghum, cassava and other biofuel crops will be planted on lands that are unfit for grain production, state media quoted Yang Jian, a director at the Ministry of Agriculture as saying. The ministry has allocated land in Shangdong and Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region to produce sweet sorghum as a start to the trials, Yang Jian, a director at the Ministry of Agriculture said.
The aim is to produce 300 million tonnes of ethanol a year, according to the National Development and Reform Commission.