The planned biofuels increase will be a boon for the farm sector, which will see production of biofuel crops jump from today's 320,000 hectares to more than million hectares by 2007. Three-quarters of current biofuel production is rapeseed-based "diester," a vegetable oil-sourced diesel fuel known as "bio-diesel" in other parts of Europe, while the remainder is comprised of ethanol sourced from a variety of crops, including beetroot, sugar cane, corn, potato, and wheat, according to government data. Raffarin has delegated the choice of fuel types and the principal means of subsidizing new production to a joint task force.
