Embrapa will launch next Thursday (14) an innovative technology that combines profitability and environmental preservation. It is the intercropping of sugarcane with corn (Canamilho). The launch event will be online and broadcast on Embrapa’s YouTube channel. The Canamilho technology modifies the logistics of planting sugarcane, as it suggests anticipating the planting of the crop for the beginning of the rainy season. This expands the planting window and relieves the sugarcane plantation, which is more concentrated in March. According to experts, the intercropped sugarcane (known as ‘one-year cane’) shows similar returns to the ‘year-and-a-half’ cane. According to researchers, the renewal of the cane field through the planting of cane intercropped with corn is promising and economically sustainable. The lecture will be given by the researcher João de Deus dos Santos Junior, from Embrapa Cerrados, leader of the project “Sugarcane and corn intercrop for sustainable intensification of sugar and ethanol production in the Cerrado”.
Source: Jornal Cana (*Translated by Ia Niani)