Syngenta Announces Brazil Breakthrough Sugar Cane Technology
29 October 2008 Current practice for planting sugar cane uses 30-40 centimeter long cuttings; Syngenta is developing a method of producing sugarcane segments of less than four centimeters in length, which will be treated with proprietary crop protecting seed care applications to maximize early plant development. This method would allow sugar cane growers to replant their fields more frequently, eliminating the typical yield degradation of the crop and thereby leading to a yield gain of up to 15%. It would also enable growers to use lighter planting equipment, saving on fuel costs.
Brazil is the market leader in sugar cane production, with some eight million hectares under cultivation – 2% of the country’s arable land. Current production of sugar cane is around 500 million tons. The introduction of Plene is pending regulatory approvals in Brazil.
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