Brazil’s UNICA reports fall in sugarcane harvest, ethanol production due to June rains

In Brazil, UNICA is reporting that heavy June rain has dropped the number of days for cane crushing and the sucrose content of sugarcane, resulting in a 0.74 percent drop in sugarcane harvest to 33.23 million tons, and a 1.61 percent drop in recoverable sugars per ton.

Overall, Brazilian ethanol production for beginning of harvest to the end of June reached 1.424 billion liters, 8.2% below the same period in the last crop year. Of this total, ethanol production was split into 359 million liters of anhydrous ethanol and 1.065 billion liters of hydrous ethanol. From the beginning of this harvest to the end of June, anhydrous ethanol production in South-Central Brazil totaled 1.532 billion liters, down 23.84% from the same period a year before. Hydrous ethanol, used to fuel Brazil’s rapidly expanding fleet of flex-fuel vehicles reached 5.950 billion liters, up 40.29% from the same period in last year’s harvest.

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