Sugarcane, a crucial worldwide food and bioenergy crop, accounts for approximately 80% of the world's sugar production, with its largest cultivation in Brazil and India. As the 5th largest crop by ...

Scarcity of freshwater is affecting the productivity and profitability of sugarcane growers and millers in India. One of the world's thirstiest crops, approximately 25,000 kg of water is needed to ...

BASEL, Switzerland -- Syngenta announced today that it is developing a new technology to dramatically improve the cost efficiency of sugar cane planting in Brazil. Syngenta's innova-tion would reduce ...

January 17, 2022 /CSRwire/ - Today, Bonsucro, the leading global sustainability platform for sugarcane, has published its revised Production Standard with new requirements to address critical global ...

Brazil would restrict sugar cane cultivation in the world’s largest tropical wetland under a proposed plan to protect the Pantanal, reports Reuters. The proposal would ban new ethanol plants in the ...

Sugarcane plantations in many tropical and sub-tropical countries have probably led to the largest losses of biodiversity of any single agricultural product, and sugar production today still has ...

Lindiwe Khotseng works for the University of the Western Cape. She receives funding from National Research Foundation (NRF) and Tertiary Education Support Program (TESP). Ntalane Sello does not work ...