Brasília – Production of sugarcane in the 2013/2014 crop should reach 653.81 million tonnes, said on Tuesday (9) the National Food Supply Company (Conab), in the first study of the season. The volume represents 11% growth over production in the previous cycle, when the country picked 588.92 million tonnes.
The total estimate for the cultivated area rose from 8.485 million to 8.893 million hectares. According to Conab, the percentage for recovery of average production of the crops is 5.9%, due to “renewal of 968,380 mil hectares and to normalisation of climate conditions that favour sugarcane crops, mainly in the Centre-South region.”
According to the study, production of sugar and ethanol seems well situated. In the case of sugar, growth of 13.61% is estimated. With this, production should rise from 38.34 million tonnes to 43.56 million tonnes. In ethanol, the expected growth reached 8.99%, with production rising from 23.64 billion litres to 25.77 billion litres.
*Translated by Mark Ament
