BIOFUEL INDUSTRY: New ethanol plant opened in Masindi
As Uganda's sugar production increases, leading to a surplus, new investments in the production of Bio Ethanol fuel, could strengthen value addition in the downstream side of the domestic petroleum industry once the biofuel law is in place. Speaker of Parliament Rebecca Kadaga, says that the unrest in the sugar sector has disrupted incomes and innovation and called for better funding of the Sugar Board to intervene. Kadaga was speaking at Smart Start Industries East Africa in Masindi district as she inspected the firm's newly installed 7 billion shillings facility with the capacity to produce 70 million litres of ethanol annually and the capacity to blend it with petroleum
