A few years ago in this country, substantial interest was expressed in the prospects of biofuels. It would give a lift to the agricultural community struggling at the time with very low maize (corn) prices and boost new farmers in the sector. It would create jobs, add to the country's energy security and so on. Most of the fanfare died down when government excluded maize from its National Biofuels Industrial Strategy in 2007.
The bells and whistles may have died down but a certain momentum remained. The focus has been on the use of sugarcane, sorghum, soybeans and canola (rapeseed).
Last week (13 August) the Department of Energy gave an update on the Biofuels Strategy to Parliament. Find the presentation on the Agricultural Business Chamber (Agbiz) website, www.agbiz.co.za or click here.
Biofuels is one of the nearly 180 chapters in The Agri Handbook. Other chapters of interest will be Renewable energy, Energy and the different chapters like Sorghum, Soybeans, Canola and Sugarcane.
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