The use of corn in the production of ethanol has been booming in Brazil. Conab estimates the production of 3.36 billion liters of corn ethanol for the season, an increase of 29.7% over the previous period, also the trend is for an even greater increase in the coming years. The minister of Agriculture, Livestock and Supply, Tereza Cristina, was in Sorriso (MT) on Thursday (28), in the inauguration of the expansion of the Ethanol Plant of Corn FS Sorriso Unit. Now, the plant’s production capacity will increase from 530 million liters to 880 million liters of corn ethanol per year. According to Tereza Cristina, despite representing only 8% of the total production of this biofuel, corn ethanol “has come to stay”. “The supportiveness of corn ethanol for Brazilian agriculture is tremendous, as it produces other than ethanol, DDGS for cattle confinement, and biomass for power generation”. The expected growth in corn ethanol production for this crop is 29.7% over the 2.59 billion liters produced in the previous season, 2020/2021.
Sources: Universo Agro /DATAGRO (*Translated by Ia Niani)