INAZUCAR want ethanol

[NewsWhore]

The new Director General of the National Sugar Institute (INAZUCAR), Faustino Jimenez, is calling for the government to use all its sugar mills for ethanol production, since all, with the single exception of Barahona, have failed and are bankrupt. Previous governments' attempts to privatize the sugar mills through capitalization resulted in failures of the mills at Consuelo, Boca Chica, Porvenir, Santa Fe, Amistad and Montellano. According to Listin Diario, Jimenez said that the 518,000 tareas (35,580 hectares approx.) of land belonging to the Ozama and Rio Haina sugar mills should be declared as eminent domain and used for ethanol production. According to the Inazucar director, local consumption and the preferential market in the United States can be covered by La Romana, the Vicini sugar mill in San Pedro and Barahona. All the remaining sugar mills can be dedicated to producing ethanol, a process that would give new life to many of the sugar cultivation areas and reduce the nation's dependency on fossil fuels.

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