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Cutting Edge Biotechnology Solutions to Reignite Brazil's Sugar & Ethanol Sector

Worldwide, 1.8 Billion Tons of Sugarcane Is Produced Every Year On 27 Million Hectares, Being Brazil The # 1 Producer.

Top-Ten sugarcane producers (mm MT)

650

375

110 105

65	55	35	35	35	30

Fonte: Brazil Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, USDA, U.S. Department of Energy

Sugarcane Is Produced On 1% Of Brazil's Landmass And Cultivated Thousands Of Miles From The Amazon Forest.

Land Use in Brazil

Brazil's Sugarcane Producing Regions

Total area: 850mm ha

Native vegetation: 555mm ha

Sugarcane: 10mm ha

Agriculture: 75mm ha

Urban Areas &

Others: 30mm ha

Pastures: 190mm ha

Km 500.2

		2.500 Km
Amazon Forest		RN
		PB
		PE
		SE AL
MT		GO
		MG
MS		Sugarcane fields
	PR	SP

Fonte: UNICA; EMBRAPA, IBGE, Rede AGRO	4

Biotech and Improved Crop Management Have Already Turbocharged The Productivity of Other Crops

Advances in Breeding Partially Offset by Losses from Expansion and Mechanization

Sugarcane Has Lagged Other Competing Crops

Indexed TCH t/ha productivity (base=100%)

+ 103% + 90%

-10%

SINCE 2008

+ 11%

1980	1984	1988	1992	1996	2000	2004	2008	2012	2017
		Beet (EU)		Corn (USA)	Sugarcane (Brazil)

Sugarcane Productivity Evolution in Brazil

+40%	+11%

-29%

Productivity	Breeding	New Geographies,	Productivity
1980		Mechanization and	2017
		Other Variables

Source: FAO / IBGE

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