eng Science and Education Publishing Journal of Applied & Environmental Microbiology 2373-6712 2018-10-08 6 2 51 58 10.12691/jaem-6-2-4 JAEM2018624 article Maheshwari Packiam maheshmicro2005@yahoo.com 1 Karthikeyan Subburamu 2 Ramesh Desikan 2 Sivakumar Uthandi 2 Marimuthu Subramanian 3 Kamaraj Soundarapandian 3 Department of Agricultural Microbiology, TNAU, Coimbatore, India Department of Bioenergy, TNAU, Coimbatore, India Department of Nano Science and Technology, TNAU, Coimbatore, India Due to the depletion of the world petroleum energy reserves and the increased public concern about global warming are strongly attracting worldwide interest in alternative fuels. In 2011, India collaborated with United States Partnership to Advance Clean Energy (PACE) for production of biofuel with low carbon emission. For this reason, both the countries were issued a funding opportunity to establish a JCER&DC (Joint Clean Energy Research and Development Centre. National Renewable Energy laboratory (NREL) had executed various ethanol research projects for cellulosic ethanol production for commercial scale production from various sources. Cellulose (41.6 %) and hemicellulose (22.32 %) are the principal component for cellulosic biofuel production. These carbohydrates (Cellulose and hemicellulose) are present in the bajra biomass. The feasibility of a new energy crop will be largely depends on its production costs, availability, conversion efficiency and cost of existing fuels. These characters are present in the bajra crop which makes the crop suitable as a bioenergy crop. http://pubs.sciepub.com/jaem/6/2/4/jaem-6-2-4.pdf bajra carbohydrates feasibility bioenergy crop