The ascendency of India as an economic world power

India and China are producing biofuel in order to decrease the pressure on crude oil. Moreover, the ever increasing price of oil in the international market has led the two over populated countries to produce biofuel to meet the domestic demand. Even, recently, both India and China have decided to increase the production of bioduel in order to lessen their dependence on oil. However, producing biofuel has its bad side too.

To meet their biofuel targets, the study said, India needs to produce 16 percent more sugarcane and China 26 percent extra maize.

"Crop production for biofuels in China and India would likely jeopardize sustainable water use and thus affect irrigated production of food crops, including cereals and vegetables, which would then need to be imported in larger quantities," de Fraiture noted.

"Are these countries -- particularly India, which has devoted so much effort to achieving food security -- adequately considering the trade-offs involved, especially the prospect of importing food to free up sufficient water and land for production of biofuel crops?"

Now it seems the situation might come that both the countries would have to import domestic food from global market if they want to produce biofuel in a large scale. That would be devastating for their economy. So, biofuel may be environment friendly fuel for the consumers but it will come at a big expense for Indian people. I think that Indian government should allocate a lot of funds to research projects on biofuel.