Brazil: Accumulated sugarcane crushing in the Center-South in the 2022/23 harvest falls 7.42% compared to 2021/22

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Published Aug 11, 2022

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Sugarcane crushing in the Center-South of Brazil reached 282.79 million tons in the accumulated for the 2022/23 harvest (from the beginning of April to the end of July), representing a decrease of 7.42% compared to with 305.45 million tons registered in the same period of the previous harvest. The data are from the Sugarcane and Bioenergy Industry Union (Unica), released this Wednesday.

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In the accumulated since the beginning of the 2022/2023 harvest, the production of sugar is 15.97 million tons, which corresponds to a drop of 13.04% compared to the previous cycle (18.37 million tons). The number of production units operating in the fortnight was 255, compared to 260 in the previous harvest. The production of ethanol in the year reached 13.65 billion liters (-4.16%), of which 8.48 billion are hydrous ethanol (-5.31%) and 5.17 billion are anhydrous (-2 .21%). Of the total biofuel manufactured, the accumulated production from corn reached 1.33 billion liters – an increase of 29.58% compared to the same period last year. Unica's technical director, Antonio de Padua Rodrigues, assessed, in a statement, that "the contribution of corn ethanol producers" meant that the increase of more than 8% in sugar production was accompanied by an increase of almost 2.8%. % in the manufacture of ethanol”. The quality of the harvested raw material, measured in kg of ATR per ton of ...

Source: Moneytimes