The quality of both sugarcane juice and molasses is affected by the nutrients and topology of the soil, variety of sugarcane, climate and harvesting. This chapter describes the natural microbial ecology of the ethanol ...

The use of vegetable biomass as substrate for ethanol production could reduce the existing usage of fossil fuels, thereby minimizing negative environmental impacts. Due to mechanical harvesting of sugarcane, the amount of ...

The problem of selecting sugarcane varieties has been widely discussed due to its computational complexity and its great impact for the sugar and ethanol industry. This paper proposes a new integrated mathematical programming ...

Sugarcane is widely cultivated in tropical and subtropical countries around the world, with increasing annual production. The largest sugarcane producing countries are, in millions of tons: Brazil (721), India (347), China ...

The objective of this study is to measure the elasticities of the sugarcane price, the price of beef (mainly the replacement of pastures by cane fields in the state), and the variation of the rural credit concession on ...

Brazil is a major sugarcane producer and its production more than doubled over the last decades to meet global bioenergy demands for reducing crude oil dependency and mitigating climate change. Nevertheless, the adverse ...

Current article, inserted within the Cleaner Production (CP) theme, focuses on the sugarcane-alcohol segment in Brazil. The main aspects and environmental impacts of the sector are underscored and demonstrate how CP may ...

The competitiveness of the sugarcane production chain requires investments in new technologies and management practices at all stages of production, especially in tillage or soil preparation and planting activities. Then, ...