Power Struggle - The future contribution of the cane sector to Brazil's electricity suppluy


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Date: November, 2007

Abstract: Brazil has the largest sugar cane milling industry in the world. It is also one of the world’s fastest growing cane industries, thanks to a combination of competitive sugar and ethanol production costs, abundant land resources, the recent boom in the domestic markets for fuel ethanol, and the promise of a growing export market for ethanol in years to come. Rabobank currently forecasts that cane production in
Brazil will rise from 428 million tonnes in 2006/07 to close to 700 million ...

Research Type: F&A Review


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