Tag: sugar cane

• Thursday, October 18th 2018 - 17:44 UTC

  Brazil, China sugar trade scuffle brought before WTO

  

  Brazil has taken the case to the World Trade Organisation as Chinese authorities unilaterally decided to cut down their demand of sugar in a move to protect domestic production.

• Tuesday, August 15th 2017 - 10:45 UTC

  Brazil opens first corn ethanol plant; the country leads in sugarcane ethanol

  

  Brazilian company FS Bioenergia inaugurated a corn ethanol plant, the first in the country, to produce 210 million liters year. The plant was built by a joint venture between the local agro-company Fiagril and US-based Summit Agricultural Group with investments of BRL 450 million (US$ 141.1m), said the Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock and Farming.

• Thursday, September 26th 2013 - 21:04 UTC

  A sugar rush that could fuel the economy

  

  By R. Viswanathan (*) - India should take its cue from Brazil and invest in ethanol as a viable commercial substitute for costly petrol.

• Tuesday, June 4th 2013 - 05:05 UTC

  Brazil provides billions to fund renewable-power and bio-fuel technology

  

  Brazil will pour 6.1 billion Reais (2.85 billion dollar) to fund renewable-power and bio-fuel technology research, accelerating its efforts to modernize its energy industry and shift away from a commodity-export based economy.

• Wednesday, April 24th 2013 - 05:49 UTC

  Brazil to the rescue of the sugar-ethanol industry with lower taxes and soft credit

  

  The Brazilian government has come to the rescue of the sugar-ethanol industry announcing that as of next May first the mandatory content of ethanol in gasoline will increase from 20% to 25%, taxes on the sugar-cane fuel will be eliminated and there will be soft loans to keep expansion going.

• Saturday, January 5th 2013 - 05:41 UTC

  Blackouts and agriculture collapse forecasted in drought stricken north-east Brazil

  

  North-east Brazil is suffering its worst drought in decades, threatening hydro-power supplies in an area prone to blackouts and potentially slowing economic growth in one of the country's emerging agricultural frontiers.

• Monday, July 9th 2012 - 18:54 UTC

  Bad weather threatening crops in farming giants but it’s not like 2008

  

  A second global food price shock is gathering steam as bad weather decimates crops in the farming giants US, Brazil, Argentina, India, Russia, the EU and Australia that feed the world, according to market analysts.

• Thursday, June 14th 2012 - 10:49 UTC

  Shell drops plan to buy sugar cane grown on land taken from indigenous people

  

  Shell subsidiary that makes bio-diesel in Brazil has dropped controversial plans to buy sugar cane grown on land taken from indigenous people, according to Survival International.

• Friday, September 30th 2011 - 01:47 UTC

  Cuba replacing Sugar Ministry for a holding company ‘efficiency oriented’

  

  Cuba is closing its once powerful Sugar Ministry in favour of a state holding company charged with pulling the sector out of a long decline, official media announced on Thursday.

• Wednesday, August 31st 2011 - 08:40 UTC

  Freezing weather reduces Brazil’s sugar crop estimate

  

  Sugar output in Brazil, the world’s largest producer and exporter, will unexpectedly fall this year after freezing weather pared crop yields, the Agriculture Ministry said on Tuesday.