Minister of Road Transport and Highways, Nitin Gadkari, while highlighting India’s potential to produce ethanol, asserted that the country should now gear up to export ethanol, news agency ANI reported. After meeting the target of 20 per cent ethanol blending in petrol, the time has arrived when India should gear up for exporting ethanol given its surplus production in the country, Gadkari said on Wednesday. 

"It is the time for India's futuristic development. We need to reduce our imports and increase our exports. As far as the surplus of ethanol, it is now the requirement of the country that we need to export ethanol," the minister said, while addressing the 2nd International Conference and Exhibition on Bioenergy and Technologies held in New Delhi, which highlighted India’s ethanol production.