Sugar production grew 55.96% in the first 15 days of September, with 3.18 million tons produced this year. This is due to superior sugarcane crushing, better quality of the product, and more volume of sugar in the mixture production. Since the beginning of the harvest, the production of sugar reached 29.07 million tons, compared to 20.05 million tons in the same period of 2019, according to Unica. UNICA’s technical director, Antonio de Padua Rodrigues points out that “the change in the production mixture reflects the greater competitiveness of the Brazilian product in the international market. With 75% of the total area harvested, the production of sugar increased up to 9.00 million tons, of which about 6.8 million are due to changes in the mixture and better quality of raw material”. In turn, the volume of ethanol dropped 4.65%, reaching 2.29 billion liters in the first half of September. Of this total, the volume of anhydrous ethanol increased 9.01%, reaching 745.37 million liters. In addition, 99.88 million liters of corn ethanol were manufactured during the first half of September 2020.
Source: Agência Safras/Canal Rural
*Translated by Ia Niani