Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock and Food Supply - Embrapa

of the systems and replacing fossil carbon with renewable sources of
energy.
• Promoting agro-ecological zoning for sugarcane in the new expansion
areas.
• Developing technologies that increase the productivity and sucrose
contents of sugarcane.
• Developing technologies that promote symbiotic nitrogen fixation.
• Developing technologies that use plant hormones in sugarcane production.
• Developing sugarcane rotation, multi-cropping and renovation techniques.
• Developing plant nutrition techniques for sugarcane.
• Using the vinasse or stillage from sugarcane juice fermentation in
agriculture.
• Generating plant health technologies for sugarcane.
• Developing sugarcane management systems.
• Developing soil management systems in sugarcane plantations.
• Improving irrigation and water management techniques in sugarcane
plantations.
Industrial technology
• Developing technologies that use sugarcane styles and green leaves.
• Increasing industrial alcohol yields.
• Improving processes through a more rational use of water and other inputs.
• Improving energy cogeneration processes.
• Developing new products and processes based on alcohol chemistry
and the use of sugarcane biomass.
• Improving motors and turbines to maximize energy yield with the use of
carburant alcohol.
Biodiesel
Agronomic technology
• Prospecting new oleaginous plant species with increased energy
density and broad edafoclimatic adaptation.
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