Giant King Grass – which has similar characteristics to sugar cane and reaches four-metres-tall – is the highest-yielding biomass crop in the world, the company claims.

The Seema Energy plant , in the country’s northeast, is expected to come into operation in 2014. Under the agreement, Viaspace would grow up to 930,000 tonnes of Giant King Grass a year to fuel the 90MW facility, creating 2,000 jobs for local farmers.

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