Date:17/01/2006 URL: http://www.thehindubusinessline.com/2006/01/17/stories/2006011702361900.htm

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HYDERABAD: The State Minister for Agriculture and Civil Supplies, Mr N. Raghuveera Reddy, has called for turning vast stretches of wastelands into bio-diesel plantations in order to reduce oil imports.

Addressing a gathering after launching the `Oil and gas conservation fortnight' here on Monday, he said the call for launching a second Green Revolution should, in fact, focus on raising jatropha and pongamia. Increased bio-diesel production could help the country arrest foreign exchange outflows.