Dominican to power ahead with biofuels
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The Dominican Republic is set to limit its dependency on fossil fuels by increasing its production of biofuels, the country's president, Leonel Fernandez, announced at the United Nations (UN) Summit on World Food Security and Climate Change.
According to Dominican Today, Mr Fernandez told other leaders gathered at the summit in Rome that the country plans to start making ethanol from sugar cane.
UN secretary general Ban Ki-moon last month said that the Dominican Republic's efforts to increase food production and exports to its neighbours could make it the "Caribbean's granary", according to Reuters.
The news comes after it was revealed last week that the Caribbean nation has 100,000 hectares of uncultivated land which can be used to produce biofuels.
According to Dominican Today, National Energy Commission president Arístides Fernandez Zucco, said: "Just the Dominican Agrarian Institute has more than 30,000 hectares available for these crops. Land which are marginal and which don’t require much water for an oily crop."
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