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Colombia investing hard on biofuels: 3 million Ha

It would be too easy to start this post speaking about Colombia's most famous crops (which both start with C) but this is about biofuels. The Colombian government has decided to apply the principles learned in El Salvador and plant 3 million Ha (about 7.4 million acres) of sugarcane and palm trees to obtain sugar-based ethanol and palm-oil for biodiesel production. Hernán Martínez, Minister of Mines and Energy said that, "Colombia has enough territory to use for biofuel crops, without touching forest or natural reserves, and ... Read more →

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