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The movement to mechanized sugarcane harvesting in Brazil
Source : domesticfuel.com
In Brazil, sugarcane accounts for 8.14 million hectares of land or 2.5% of the arable land. Of that 2.5%, 1.5% is sugarcane for ethanol, while 48.1% of the country’s arable land is used for pasture for cattle. It is interesting to note that 87 percent of sugarcane production is in the state of Sao Paulo – no where near the Amazon Rain Forest. This year the industry harvested 471.5 million tons, an increase of 7.5% from last year, even accounting for excessive rains that left a significant amount of sugarcane in the fields. So how many people does it take to harvest that much cane? The industry employs 850'000, of that 550'000 are cane cutters. However, this is rapidly changing with the new mechanized harvest, spurred in part by the Green Protocol in Sao Paulo State. This protocol is an agreement between UNICA, the Brazilian Sugarcane Industry Association, and the Sao Paulo state government, to end sugarcane straw burning by 2014. By the 2008/09 harvest year, 49% of the harvest was mechanized.
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7 December 2009 |
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