Sugarcane crushing should be 597 million/t in the Center-South of Brazil in 2023/24 where productivity should grow 7%

The processing of sugarcane in the Center-South of Brazil in the 2023/24 season (which will start in April) should be around 597 million tons, estimates the British trading company Czarnikow. In a report, analyst Ana Zancaner stated that rainfall in the region was above the historical average in this first quarter of the year, something that had only occurred in 2016. "This is positive for the development of sugarcane, which means that we expect high agricultural productivity and high availability of sugarcane", he pointed out. The trading company expects agricultural yields to increase by 7% this season, reaching almost 79 tons of sugarcane per hectare (TCH). If fulfilled, this would be the highest TCH since the 2020/21 harvest, when the Center-South of the country ground 605 million tons of sugarcane. With the greater availability of raw material, Czarnikow predicts that the region will produce 37.6 million tons of sugar in the 2023/24 cycle, the second highest production ever ...