Brazil’s Corn-Based Ethanol Supply Grows as Firms Add Capacity -Trade Group
by Roberto Samora (Reuters) … The data confirms that Brazilian corn ethanol production, even in the face of an economic downturn during the pandemic and competition from the sugar-based alternative, grew and will continue to expand as society demands cleaner fuel alternatives.
According to Unem, corn ethanol is expected to account for 19% of all ethanol consumed in the country next season up from 13.7% in the current season.
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It now takes corn ethanol companies just 31 days to produce the volume they produced in the full year of 2017, he said.
Unem said it would present data on the production of biofuels and animal nutrition products to Agriculture Minister Carlos Favaro. READ MORE