After Cricket & Politics, Biodiesel should be the most talked about subject. When it comes to its utility and benefits, biodiesel is par excellence and beyond comparison. Biodiesel is an alternative to petroleum diesel, which is becoming expensive day by day, creates pollution and its reserves are likely to be exhausted.

In Chemical terms, Bio-diesel is mono-alkyl esters of fatty acids derived from vegetable oils or animal fats. The vegetable oil, extracted from oil seeds, is processed chemically to obtain biodiesel. Seeds of many plants contain oil, like coconuts, groundnuts, Soya bins, rapeseeds, Caster, Sunflower, which is presently extracted and used for many applications. Non-edible oil-seeds like Karanj, Jatropha, Castor, etc. are preferred over edible oil-seeds for biodiesel production. Main reason being, shortage of edible oil for its existing usages.