ETHANOL: SUGAR VERSUS ETHANOL NEXUS IN PAKISTAN MARKET

Abstract

The important progress of agricultural throughput is tightly tied to the green evolution all over the world. On another side, the large need of the energetic industry on biofuels and renewable fuels has provided new paradigms for the agricultural production, once producing biofuels has to be developed accordingly to the traditional food industries with regards to eventual impacts on agricultural and social impacts. This case study describes the Pakistani Ethanol industry case. It provides a description of the Ethanol supply chain in Pakistan from sugarcane field to market. It incorporates how the Pakistani ethanol industry can play a critical role in improving the lives of rural dwellers by contributing to increased agricultural production; enhance farm output, and an increase in the income of farmers and agrarian communities. Most importantly, key environmental and socioeconomic impacts for ethanol production, including complementary energy source to the existing and ever-growing reliance on imported fossil fuels, and countless job opportunities, have been analyzed in two other countries: the US and the Brazil. It was concluded that Pakistan should invest more and introduce ethanol based fuel, as it has the potential to be a quick solution to economic, social and energy woes.