{"id":516,"date":"2012-11-27T16:15:13","date_gmt":"2012-11-27T15:15:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.besustainablemagazine.com\/cms2\/?p=516"},"modified":"2018-05-02T16:51:45","modified_gmt":"2018-05-02T14:51:45","slug":"sweet-sorghum-seen-as-a-stategic-crop-for-bioethanol-in-brasil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.besustainablemagazine.com\/cms2\/sweet-sorghum-seen-as-a-stategic-crop-for-bioethanol-in-brasil\/","title":{"rendered":"Sweet sorghum seen as a strategic crop for bioethanol in Brasil"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.besustainablemagazine.com\/cms2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/sorgo-pianta-intera.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-523\" title=\"sweet sorghum\" src=\"http:\/\/www.besustainablemagazine.com\/cms2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/sorgo-pianta-intera-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.besustainablemagazine.com\/cms2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/sorgo-pianta-intera-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.besustainablemagazine.com\/cms2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/sorgo-pianta-intera-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.besustainablemagazine.com\/cms2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/sorgo-pianta-intera-100x100.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>One of the world&#8217;s leading companies in agro-industry,\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.syngenta.com\/global\/corporate\/en\/Pages\/home.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">Syngenta<\/a>, and the energy crop company <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ceres.net\/Index.html\" target=\"_blank\">Ceres<\/a> will work together to support the introduction of sweet sorghum as a source of fermentable sugars at Brazil\u2019s 400 or more ethanol mills.<\/p>\n<p>Sweet sorghum is a hardy crop that\u00a0can be grown on fallow sugarcane land and processed using the same equipment. Since it grows in just 90 to 120 days, it requires less water and other inputs than sugarcane. Last season, Brazilian mills planted Ceres sweet sorghum on more than 3.000 hectares (7.400 acres). Due in part to increased demand for ethanol and sugarcane shortages, Brazil\u2019s government recently announced in its annual agricultural plan for 2012-2013 that sweet sorghum would be considered a strategic crop.<\/p>\n<p>Under the agreement, Syngenta and Ceres intend to collaborate on small-scale trials as well as larger demonstration-scale field evaluations with mills in this season. Syngenta will provide its agronomy resources to evaluate its portfolio of crop protection products alongside Ceres hybrids, and Ceres will provide both seed and research support.Both companies will coordinate outreach to ethanol mills and develop industry training programs.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ceres.net\/News\/NewsReleases\/2012\/11-26-12-News-Rel.html\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the world&#8217;s leading companies in agro-industry,\u00a0 Syngenta, and the energy crop company Ceres will work together to support the introduction of sweet sorghum as a source of fermentable&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12,3,22],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.besustainablemagazine.com\/cms2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/516"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.besustainablemagazine.com\/cms2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.besustainablemagazine.com\/cms2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.besustainablemagazine.com\/cms2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.besustainablemagazine.com\/cms2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=516"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.besustainablemagazine.com\/cms2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/516\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1313,"href":"https:\/\/www.besustainablemagazine.com\/cms2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/516\/revisions\/1313"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.besustainablemagazine.com\/cms2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.besustainablemagazine.com\/cms2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=516"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.besustainablemagazine.com\/cms2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}