Although 2020/2021 harvest is still in progress, sugarcane has already provided the highest yield in history, making 85.03 million tons of Total Recoverable Sugars (ATR) by November 16. The quality of the raw material processed in the first half of November, considering the concentration of ATR, increased by 4.55%, reaching 153.56 kg per ton in 2020, over the 146.88 kg registered in the same period of 2019. The amount of sugarcane processed by the plants in the Center-South reached 20.34 million tons in the first half of November, an increase of 2.24% over the amount recorded in the same period of the 2019/2020 harvest. From the beginning of the 2020/2021 cycle to November 16, the sugarcane crushing reached 585.73 million tons, which represents an increase of 3.69%, compared to the same period of the last agricultural cycle. UNICA’s technical director, Antonio de Padua Rodrigues, points out that “in São Paulo, the crushing of 350.06 million tons of sugarcane registered until November 16 has already exceeded the total of 332.13 million tons in comparison to the 2019/2020 harvest”.
Sources: ÚNICA/Noticias Agrícolas
*Translated by Ia Niani