According to Datagro, sugar output will climb by 13% to 38 million tons in Brazil’s Center-South, while ethanol production is likely to expand by 6.2% to 31.1 billion liters, backed by an increase in corn production that will produce 5.6 billion liters of ethanol. The region’s sugarcane crushing should increase by 6.9% to 590 million tons. According to the entity, the increase is due to the good weather, and recent investments made by farmers, which encourage a robust return of sugar-energy activities in the harvest of 2023–2024. A higher percentage than in prior harvests, 47.9% of this total crushed cane, must be used for the manufacturing of sugar.
Source: Jornal Cana (*Translated by Ia Niani)