A meeting has been called by the Indian agriculture minister to coordinate efforts of ten sugar-producing Indian states regarding ethanol blending targets.
India recently announced an E10 ethanol mandate to go into effect in 2008, as the result of rising oil prices and the depressed state of the Indian sugar industry.
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