SUGAR CANE: CENTRO-SUL REACHES 556.85 MILLION TONS AT THE END OF THE FIRST FIFTEENTH DECEMBER

Sugarcane milling in the Center-South totaled 12.6 million tons in the first half of December. In the accumulated harvest of 2018/2019 until December 16th, processing reached 556.85 million tons, down 4.10% over the same period of the previous crop (580.68 million tons). Up-dated survey with companies indicates that 72 mills closed the harvest in the first half of December this year. In the accumulated, 205 units registered the closing of the harvest 2018/2019 until December 16th, 2018 – in the same period of 2017/2018, 215 companies had completed the milling. In the first half of December, sugar production fell by 20.1% in relation to the same half of 2017, totaling only 408.3K tons. In the case of ethanol, there was a 34.7% increase in production, with 681.5 million liters produced (601.4 million hydrated and 80.1 million anhydrous).
From the beginning of the 2018/2019 crop to December 16, the amount of sugar produced totaled 26.17 million tons, down 26.72% when compared to the same period of 2017. Conversely, ethanol production is high of 18.93%, reaching 29.77 billion liters (9.06 billion anhydrous and 20.71 billion hydrated). Of the total raw material processed in the first 15 days of December, 71.30% were destined to the production of the renewable. In the accumulated crop, this percentage reached 64.44%. The amount of Total Recoverable Sugars (ATR) per ton of processed raw material reached 120.87 kg in the first half of December. In the accumulated crop, the indicator totaled 138.69 kg of ATR per ton, up 1% over the 2017/2018 crop. The total volume of ethanol sold in the Center-South totaled 1.38 billion liters in the first half of December, 65.74 million of which were destined for export and 1.32 billion for the domestic market. It should be noted once again the expansion of sales of hydrated in the domestic market, which reached 987 million liters in the first fifteen days of December. This volume represents a significant increase of 31.21% compared to the amount registered in the same period of 2017 (752.22 million). The accumulated sales of ethanol by the mills since the beginning of the harvest until December 16 totaled 21.81 billion liters, with 1.18 billion exported and 20.63 billion sold internally – accumulated growth of 16.87% in comparison with the crop 2017/2018.
Source: Unica