El Salvador can produce 40 thousand gallons of bio-diesel per day

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The production of bio-diesel in the country is a "win-win" project, the executive director of the Salvadoran Business Council for Sustainable Development, Luis López Lindo, said.

And this seems to be confirmed by a study, carried out in conjunction with Dutch Service for Cooperation, that defines a business model for the profitable production and commercialization of bio-diesel in El Salvador.

Of all the advantages of the sector Lindo highlighted three: "Firstly, it is an inclusive model, that is, it allows a large number of producers of resources in short supply in the value chain to be included. Secondly, it does not compete with the food chain and, thirdly, we are convinced that become a new development pole for El Salvador.

Source: elsalvador.com

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