Brazil Area’s Sugar Millers Seen Directing More Cane to Ethanol
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Sugar millers in Brazil’s center south, the main growing region of the world’s biggest producer, may direct more cane to making ethanol than currently forecast because rains are delaying the harvest and limiting ethanol supplies, according to the International Sugar Organization.
The share of cane directed to making the biofuel in the 2013-14 season that started there in April may turn out to be higher than the 53 percent currently forecast, Leonardo Bichara Rocha, a senior economist at the ISO, said in an interview in London today. Last year, about 50 percent of all the cane was directed to ethanol production, he said.