With 47.42% of the sugarcane destined for sugar production, compared to 37.06% registered on the same date in 2019, the sweetener production increased 23.34% in the last fifteen days of June this year and reached 2, 73 million tons, against 2.21 million tons verified in the same fortnight of the previous year. The volume of manufactured ethanol reached 1.96 billion liters in the second half of June, 596.30 million liters of anhydrous ethanol and 1.36 billion liters of hydrous ethanol. Of this total amount, 88.63 million liters were manufactured from corn. In the accumulated since the beginning of the 2020/2021 harvest until July 1, sugar production reached 13.30 million tons, against 8.94 million tons verified on the same date of the 2019/2020 cycle. “In addition to market conditions, the better quality of the raw material has favored sugar production. With approximately 40% of the harvest so far, an increase of 4.35 million tons in sugar production has been observed ”, stated the technical director of UNICA, Antonio de Padua Rodrigues. According to him, of this amount, 657 thousand tons of sugar resulted from the increase in crushing and the remainder, 3.70 million tons are the result of the change in the production mix, which allowed the growth of sugar production. The accumulated production of ethanol, in turn, totaled 10.00 billion liters, being 2.82 billion liters of anhydrous ethanol and 7.18 billion liters of hydrated ethanol. Of the total manufactured, 506.93 million liters of biofuel were produced from corn.
Source: Jornal Cana