Brazil: Sugarcane crushing in the Center-South reaches 538.98 million tons in the first half of December 2022

Sugarcane crushing in the first half of December in the Center-South region totaled 5.61 million tons, registering a significant increase in relation to the 769 thousand tons processed in the same period last year. In the accumulated harvest, crushing reached 538.98 million tons this year compared to 522.61 million tons recorded in the same period of 2021 – an advance of 3.13%. The crushing registered until the end of the first half of December of this year is even higher than the total processed in the entire harvest in 2021/2022 (524.1 million tons). In the next fortnightly release, an evaluation of the results from April to December should clarify the potential size of the crop that ends on March 31st. In the first half of December, 36 production units finished crushing sugarcane for the current cycle. In accumulated terms, the end of the harvest reaches 211 units. At the beginning of the second half of December, 47 units were in operation in the Center-South compared to 7 ...