India, US sign biofuel cooperation agreement

NEW DELHI - India and the US signed an agreement for cooperation in production and marketing of biofuels here Tuesday.

As per a government release, the agreement’s purpose ‘is to establish a framework of cooperation covering scientific, technical and policy aspects of production, conversion, utilisation, distribution and marketing of biofuels in a sustainable and environmentally friendly manner’.

The agreement has identified eight specific areas for cooperation, including biofuel feed stock production based on non-edible oil seed plantations on wastelands, advanced conversion technologies and utilisation of by-products of bio-diesel production processes.