Brazilian cane harvest improves, ethanol production surges

In Brazil, UNICA reports that the volume of sugarcane processed by mills in the South-Central region of Brazil totaled 40.39 million tons in the first half of July, an increase of 2.34% compared to the same period a year ago. Total crushing from the beginning of the harvest to July 16 reached 217.40 million tons, down 14.81% from 255.19 million tons processed over the same period in the previous harvest.

Despite a drop of almost 40 million tons in the amount of crushed cane since the harvest began compared to last year, anhydrous ethanol production by July 16 checked in with an increase of 14.32%, for a total of 3.16 billion liters against 2.77 billion liters produced in last year’s harvest over the same period.