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<b>how UPA diverted food crops to alcohol-making</b>
may 10th, 2009
yes, of course. this is why they just luuuuuv nisha susan and the other harpies of the federation of loose women of india.
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May 03,2009
<b>UPA created food scarcity by promoting whisky
Guess why they market pub culture</b>
By Naresh Minocha
Posted by nizhal yoddha at 5/11/2009 12:07:00 AM
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AGworld said...
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  5/11/2009 5:23 AM
AGworld said...
  Frankly this sounds like a storm in a teacup.
  India has granaries bursting with wheat that'd rot.
  In any case, india is more at risk from appalling infrastructure and government interference in agiculture than due to the conversion of a few hundred tons into alcohol!
  I do share the disdain for the new susan on the block. She has a good role model in the older susan!
  5/11/2009 5:26 AM
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<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin--><b>UPA created food scarcity by promoting whisky
Guess why they market pub culture</b>
By Naresh Minocha
The race for setting up grain-based distilleries and for conversion of molasses-based ones into dual-mode ones is gaining momentum due to grant of lucrative financial incentives by states such as Maharashtra and Uttar Pradesh.
* * *
The UPA has relied on the soft option of imports to bridge food security as it has done in the case of energy security by entering into a nuclear deal with the United States.
With molasses-based distilleries gradually modifying themselves to use grain as stand-by raw material, the grain markets would come under strain as and when sugarcane production falls as is happening at present.
* * *
The usage of grain as raw material for production of alcohol is set to pick up in a big way due to massive surge in demand triggered by governmentâs programme for blending petrol with ethanol.
<b>The UPA government has back-stabbed the aam aadami in the area of food security. It has done so by granting approvals to setting up about two dozen grain-based distilleries over the last three years. Several more approvals are in the pipeline.
These projects are likely to gobble up a few million tonnes of wheat, rice, corn and other grain every year. An aam aadami can check the authenticity of these approvals from the Ministry of Environment and Forests (see table).</b>
The race for setting up grain-based distilleries and for conversion of molasses-based ones into dual-mode ones is gaining momentum due to grant of lucrative financial incentives by states such as Maharashtra and Uttar Pradesh.
These upcoming grain-based distilleries would produce alcohol/ethanol for all applicationsâfor use in the manufacture of liquor, for use as a petrol additive and for various industrial applications.
One of such distillery companies named SVP Industries Limited has the honesty to make a public disclosure that it would use atta (wheat flour) as the raw material for the distillery.
Even Vijay Mallya-controlled United Spirits Limited would use 150-160 tonnes/day of âgrain flourâ at its proposed grain/molasses-based distillery at Meerut in UP as revealed by governmentâs approval dated February 5, 2008.
The Congress Party has the audacity to turn a blind eye to these chilling facts and promise Utopia to the public. In its manifesto for the Lok Sabha polls, it thus says: âThe Indian National Congress pledges to enact a Right to Food law that guarantees access to sufficient food for all people, particularly the most vulnerable sections of society.â
Did Congress as the leader of UPA alliance arrange sufficient food? Yes, it tried doing so by importing millions of tonnes of duty-free wheat during 2006 and 2007. One has lost track of the number of years the country has been importing pulses and edible oil.
The UPA has relied on this soft option of imports to bridge food security as it has done in the case of energy security by entering into a nuclear deal with the United States.
The short-circuiting of both food security and energy security means a big comprise on national defence security.
The only way India can achieve food security is through a twin-pronged strategy of enforcing strict population control and ushering in second green revolution with the help of genetic engineering and other new techniques.
Instead of pursuing this path of self-reliance, Union Agriculture Minister, Sharad Pawar, last year misled an international conference on food security. A government release dated June 4, 2008, quoted him as saying: âOur policy has been for use of non-cereal biomasses, crop residues and for cultivation of jatropha on degraded and waste land for bio-fuel production. Conversion of foodgrain and edible oil seeds for producing bio-fuel, prima facie, is fraught with food security concern as is evident already.â
Mr. Pawarâs statement is misleading because it does not disclose the fact that Indian government encourages the production of ethanol from grains.
The basic issue is diversion of grains for the manufacture of ethanol. It is secondary issue whether the grain-derived ethanol is subsequently modified to suit a particular application, be it for blending with petrol or be it for production of whisky.
What is more, the usage of grain as raw material for production of alcohol is set to pick up in a big way due to massive surge in demand triggered by governmentâs programme for blending petrol with ethanol.
Thus, the diversion of molasses-based ethanol to petrol sector gets covered up partly by production of grain-based ethanol for liquor sector. It is a pure play of market prices for foodgrain, molasses and ethanol that decides the economics of production and use of alcohol.
Thus, Mr. Pawarâs claim and the Congress Partyâs glib promise on food security are tantamount to rubbing salt on the wounded psyche of an average Indian housewife. She is already feeling hurt by the relentless battle against soar food prices during the last few years.
The policy for production of liquor from grains was introduced in a low-key fashion by Rajiv Gandhi government in 1988 under the garb of checking illicit production of liquor. Another ostensible objective was to make additional molasses available for manufacture of industrial alcohol.
The relevant policy notification titled Creation of additional capacity for manufacture of alcohol based on non-molasses raw materials was issued on April 4, 1988. It says such raw materials would include potatoes, tapioca, mahuwa flowers, coarse grain (maize, jawar, bajra), spoiled wheat/rice and fruits of various types.
Can the UPA government give year-wise data on the quantity and type of foodgrain used by distilleries since the announcement of this policy? Did the government put in place a mechanism to prevent diversion of grain meant for public distribution and for school kitchens to distilleries?
The impact of this policy was aptly described by a liquor company SVP Industries Limited in its draft initial public offer document issued in 2006.
Noting that potable liquor consumption is increasing at 10 per cent per annum, the document said: âIndia, as a nation, has undergone a sea change. At a time in the past liquor was typically looked down upon. With changing lifestyles and urbanisation of our towns and cities, it is no more taboo to be seen drinking. In fact, it has rightly or wrongly enhanced the status. Women and teenagers too have started indulging in social drinking.â
SVP said it would âutilise broken rice, ground wheat flour (atta), maize, bajra and jawar as its raw material with the stand-by option to use molasses as its raw material, in case of any emergency or shortfall in availability of grainâ at its 50 kilolitre per day (KLPD) plant located at Muzaffarnagar in UP.
This distillery would produce both extra-neutral alcohol (ENA) for liquor industry and absolute alcohol for petrol-blending and industrial applications.
Referring to the growing use of grain-derived ENA by Indian-made foreign liquor (IMFL) industry, the company said: âNew IMFL brands are now being launched using grain-based ENA as raw material.â
Noting that the world-famous Scotch whisky brands are now produced across the country, the company said: âSeagram, a liquor company of international repute, manufactures all its brands from grain-based ENA.â
The setting-up of such grain-guzzling projects is not only increasing the foodgrain prices in the market but also creating the prospects of food shortages. The use of maize/corn as raw material by distilleries would also accelerate the demise of poultry farms.
With molasses-based distilleries gradually modifying themselves to use grain as stand-by raw material, the grain markets would come under strain as and when sugarcane production falls as is happening at present.
The grim scenario has all the elements of French Revolution. The legend has it that when the public cried for bread, French queen Marie-Antoinette (1755-93) retorted let them eat cake.
If the grain-based ethanol bandwagon is unchecked, a day would come when the powers that be would say let aam aadami drink grain-derived ethanol, if there is no atta to produce rotis.
Jai Ho! Jai Ho!! Jai Ho!!!
Table: A list of a few major grain-based alcohol plants that have been granted either final or first-stage environmental approval by UPA government
(alcohol capacity in kilolitres per day)
S.No. Name Capacity Location Approval date
1. Saswad Mali Sugar 30 Solapur, Mha. April 13, 2009
2. Shamanur Sugars 60 Davangere, Kar. April 9, 2009
3. Berry Breweries 130 Khammam, AP March 31, 2009
4. Kartik Agro 65 Bagalkot, Kar. March 17, 2009
5. Shanta Biofuels 150 Mahaboobnagar, AP February 25, 2009
6. Tilaknagar Industries 100 Ahmednagar, Mha February 10, 2009
7. Hetsym Bio Chemicals 100 Nalgonda, AP January 2, 2009
8. Aroma Biotech 60 West Godavari, AP July 11, 2008
9. Tata Chemicals 130 Nanded, Mha. March 18, 2008
10. Rusni Distilleries 40 Medak, AP February 18, 2008
11. Sri Teja Biofuels 60 West Godavari, AP October 22, 2008
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I don't know any 'elected' government that so hates its people that it hikes up the prices for primary food - diverting it for alcoholic beverages (secondary consumption). Not to mention their destroying what are considered religious treasures of the majority and obstructing their traditional life (RamarSethu, Chidambaram Kovil, Amarnath) and countless other crimes and conspiracies by the government against the populace (fraud of Hindu Terror, arresting Shankaracharya, stealing Temple funds, facilitating christoislamic terrorism).
Truly, christianism is a 'miracle'. The most 'miraculous' part of it by far, though, is that its victims seem to cover for it. To varying degrees. And the pseculars nigh completely - after all, they're not victimised (yet), they just help it to victimise others further with their protectionism.
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->Monday, May 11, 2009
<b>how UPA diverted food crops to alcohol-making</b>
may 10th, 2009
yes, of course. this is why they just luuuuuv nisha susan and the other harpies of the federation of loose women of india.
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From: Shahryar
http://www.organiser.org/dynamic/modules.p...&pid=288&page=2
(Actually, the link's moved here:
http://www.organiser.org/dynamic/modules.p...&pid=289&page=2
)
May 03,2009
<b>UPA created food scarcity by promoting whisky
Guess why they market pub culture</b>
By Naresh Minocha
Posted by nizhal yoddha at 5/11/2009 12:07:00 AM
2 comments:
AGworld said...
  This post has been removed by the author.
  5/11/2009 5:23 AM
AGworld said...
  Frankly this sounds like a storm in a teacup.
  India has granaries bursting with wheat that'd rot.
  In any case, india is more at risk from appalling infrastructure and government interference in agiculture than due to the conversion of a few hundred tons into alcohol!
  I do share the disdain for the new susan on the block. She has a good role model in the older susan!
  5/11/2009 5:26 AM
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<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin--><b>UPA created food scarcity by promoting whisky
Guess why they market pub culture</b>
By Naresh Minocha
The race for setting up grain-based distilleries and for conversion of molasses-based ones into dual-mode ones is gaining momentum due to grant of lucrative financial incentives by states such as Maharashtra and Uttar Pradesh.
* * *
The UPA has relied on the soft option of imports to bridge food security as it has done in the case of energy security by entering into a nuclear deal with the United States.
With molasses-based distilleries gradually modifying themselves to use grain as stand-by raw material, the grain markets would come under strain as and when sugarcane production falls as is happening at present.
* * *
The usage of grain as raw material for production of alcohol is set to pick up in a big way due to massive surge in demand triggered by governmentâs programme for blending petrol with ethanol.
<b>The UPA government has back-stabbed the aam aadami in the area of food security. It has done so by granting approvals to setting up about two dozen grain-based distilleries over the last three years. Several more approvals are in the pipeline.
These projects are likely to gobble up a few million tonnes of wheat, rice, corn and other grain every year. An aam aadami can check the authenticity of these approvals from the Ministry of Environment and Forests (see table).</b>
The race for setting up grain-based distilleries and for conversion of molasses-based ones into dual-mode ones is gaining momentum due to grant of lucrative financial incentives by states such as Maharashtra and Uttar Pradesh.
These upcoming grain-based distilleries would produce alcohol/ethanol for all applicationsâfor use in the manufacture of liquor, for use as a petrol additive and for various industrial applications.
One of such distillery companies named SVP Industries Limited has the honesty to make a public disclosure that it would use atta (wheat flour) as the raw material for the distillery.
Even Vijay Mallya-controlled United Spirits Limited would use 150-160 tonnes/day of âgrain flourâ at its proposed grain/molasses-based distillery at Meerut in UP as revealed by governmentâs approval dated February 5, 2008.
The Congress Party has the audacity to turn a blind eye to these chilling facts and promise Utopia to the public. In its manifesto for the Lok Sabha polls, it thus says: âThe Indian National Congress pledges to enact a Right to Food law that guarantees access to sufficient food for all people, particularly the most vulnerable sections of society.â
Did Congress as the leader of UPA alliance arrange sufficient food? Yes, it tried doing so by importing millions of tonnes of duty-free wheat during 2006 and 2007. One has lost track of the number of years the country has been importing pulses and edible oil.
The UPA has relied on this soft option of imports to bridge food security as it has done in the case of energy security by entering into a nuclear deal with the United States.
The short-circuiting of both food security and energy security means a big comprise on national defence security.
The only way India can achieve food security is through a twin-pronged strategy of enforcing strict population control and ushering in second green revolution with the help of genetic engineering and other new techniques.
Instead of pursuing this path of self-reliance, Union Agriculture Minister, Sharad Pawar, last year misled an international conference on food security. A government release dated June 4, 2008, quoted him as saying: âOur policy has been for use of non-cereal biomasses, crop residues and for cultivation of jatropha on degraded and waste land for bio-fuel production. Conversion of foodgrain and edible oil seeds for producing bio-fuel, prima facie, is fraught with food security concern as is evident already.â
Mr. Pawarâs statement is misleading because it does not disclose the fact that Indian government encourages the production of ethanol from grains.
The basic issue is diversion of grains for the manufacture of ethanol. It is secondary issue whether the grain-derived ethanol is subsequently modified to suit a particular application, be it for blending with petrol or be it for production of whisky.
What is more, the usage of grain as raw material for production of alcohol is set to pick up in a big way due to massive surge in demand triggered by governmentâs programme for blending petrol with ethanol.
Thus, the diversion of molasses-based ethanol to petrol sector gets covered up partly by production of grain-based ethanol for liquor sector. It is a pure play of market prices for foodgrain, molasses and ethanol that decides the economics of production and use of alcohol.
Thus, Mr. Pawarâs claim and the Congress Partyâs glib promise on food security are tantamount to rubbing salt on the wounded psyche of an average Indian housewife. She is already feeling hurt by the relentless battle against soar food prices during the last few years.
The policy for production of liquor from grains was introduced in a low-key fashion by Rajiv Gandhi government in 1988 under the garb of checking illicit production of liquor. Another ostensible objective was to make additional molasses available for manufacture of industrial alcohol.
The relevant policy notification titled Creation of additional capacity for manufacture of alcohol based on non-molasses raw materials was issued on April 4, 1988. It says such raw materials would include potatoes, tapioca, mahuwa flowers, coarse grain (maize, jawar, bajra), spoiled wheat/rice and fruits of various types.
Can the UPA government give year-wise data on the quantity and type of foodgrain used by distilleries since the announcement of this policy? Did the government put in place a mechanism to prevent diversion of grain meant for public distribution and for school kitchens to distilleries?
The impact of this policy was aptly described by a liquor company SVP Industries Limited in its draft initial public offer document issued in 2006.
Noting that potable liquor consumption is increasing at 10 per cent per annum, the document said: âIndia, as a nation, has undergone a sea change. At a time in the past liquor was typically looked down upon. With changing lifestyles and urbanisation of our towns and cities, it is no more taboo to be seen drinking. In fact, it has rightly or wrongly enhanced the status. Women and teenagers too have started indulging in social drinking.â
SVP said it would âutilise broken rice, ground wheat flour (atta), maize, bajra and jawar as its raw material with the stand-by option to use molasses as its raw material, in case of any emergency or shortfall in availability of grainâ at its 50 kilolitre per day (KLPD) plant located at Muzaffarnagar in UP.
This distillery would produce both extra-neutral alcohol (ENA) for liquor industry and absolute alcohol for petrol-blending and industrial applications.
Referring to the growing use of grain-derived ENA by Indian-made foreign liquor (IMFL) industry, the company said: âNew IMFL brands are now being launched using grain-based ENA as raw material.â
Noting that the world-famous Scotch whisky brands are now produced across the country, the company said: âSeagram, a liquor company of international repute, manufactures all its brands from grain-based ENA.â
The setting-up of such grain-guzzling projects is not only increasing the foodgrain prices in the market but also creating the prospects of food shortages. The use of maize/corn as raw material by distilleries would also accelerate the demise of poultry farms.
With molasses-based distilleries gradually modifying themselves to use grain as stand-by raw material, the grain markets would come under strain as and when sugarcane production falls as is happening at present.
The grim scenario has all the elements of French Revolution. The legend has it that when the public cried for bread, French queen Marie-Antoinette (1755-93) retorted let them eat cake.
If the grain-based ethanol bandwagon is unchecked, a day would come when the powers that be would say let aam aadami drink grain-derived ethanol, if there is no atta to produce rotis.
Jai Ho! Jai Ho!! Jai Ho!!!
Table: A list of a few major grain-based alcohol plants that have been granted either final or first-stage environmental approval by UPA government
(alcohol capacity in kilolitres per day)
S.No. Name Capacity Location Approval date
1. Saswad Mali Sugar 30 Solapur, Mha. April 13, 2009
2. Shamanur Sugars 60 Davangere, Kar. April 9, 2009
3. Berry Breweries 130 Khammam, AP March 31, 2009
4. Kartik Agro 65 Bagalkot, Kar. March 17, 2009
5. Shanta Biofuels 150 Mahaboobnagar, AP February 25, 2009
6. Tilaknagar Industries 100 Ahmednagar, Mha February 10, 2009
7. Hetsym Bio Chemicals 100 Nalgonda, AP January 2, 2009
8. Aroma Biotech 60 West Godavari, AP July 11, 2008
9. Tata Chemicals 130 Nanded, Mha. March 18, 2008
10. Rusni Distilleries 40 Medak, AP February 18, 2008
11. Sri Teja Biofuels 60 West Godavari, AP October 22, 2008
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I don't know any 'elected' government that so hates its people that it hikes up the prices for primary food - diverting it for alcoholic beverages (secondary consumption). Not to mention their destroying what are considered religious treasures of the majority and obstructing their traditional life (RamarSethu, Chidambaram Kovil, Amarnath) and countless other crimes and conspiracies by the government against the populace (fraud of Hindu Terror, arresting Shankaracharya, stealing Temple funds, facilitating christoislamic terrorism).
Truly, christianism is a 'miracle'. The most 'miraculous' part of it by far, though, is that its victims seem to cover for it. To varying degrees. And the pseculars nigh completely - after all, they're not victimised (yet), they just help it to victimise others further with their protectionism.
Death to traitors.