from Biofuels Digest by Jim Lane In China, a deputy department director of the Ministry of Finance Zeng Xiao’an denied that China was responsible for the recent run up in global grain prices. “It’s the United States that should take the blame for its massive production of fuels from corn and other grains. Our scale is very small and we have already stopped all new [corn ethanol] projects,” Zeng said. China Daily published a useful survey of Chinese ethanol production as background material to Zeng’s comments, including a note that China is now only 95 percent self-sufficient in grains. A Biofuels Digest report earlier this year projected that China was rapidly losing food self-sufficiency. My Thoughts: I find it kind of amazing that a country the size of China can no longer grow enough food for it's own people...
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