Brazil can expand production of ethanol up to 2028

Brazil can produce between 47 and 50 billion liters of ethanol per harvest up to 2028, in the last, between 2018 and 2019, 33 billion liters were produced. The statement is from the president of the Sugar Cane Industry Union (Unica), Evandro Gussi. According to the executive, this growth will be possible thanks to the adequacy and expansion of production plants and RenovaBio, the new policy of renewable fuels. The federal government's authorization is expected to allow the biofuels sector to issue debentures to capture resources today estimated at R $62.3 billion per year. This and other topics, such as innovation in the segment, will be approached during the Ethanol Summit, an event held in São Paulo on June 17th and 18th. Estadão and the Broadcast Agro, a real-time agribusiness news platform, are media partners. For Gussi, the proposal of the event is precisely to put in perspective what the segment has advanced and outline the challenges for the coming years, among them, the internationalization of the national industry. "We need to show the world the benefits of alcohol," said the executive, who recently visited India and China The exchange of information regarding the segment was also one of the points of recent meeting with the Minister of Agriculture, Tereza Cristina. "It has brought us the demand for technology sharing with other countries." The minister will be one of the speakers of the event, which is still going to have the president of BNDES, Joaquim Levy, and the Minister of Economics, Paulo Guedes. The event, this year, will still have, in the two days, an innovation Hub, whose main goal will be to present how the segment can achieve greater efficiency from the technology. "The fires (in the sugar cane harvest) were abolished. The whole crop goes through a mechanization process, "says Gussi, who also highlighted the qualification process of the workforce involved in planting and harvesting sugarcane in recent years. The interested in participating in the Ethanol Summit can get more information on the Internet.