Sugarcane ethanol: Contributions to climate change - BAFF

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Table 5. Number of sugarcane mills in selected states and sampled mills information on land use change.
State Number of mills Mills sampled
Previous land use (1,000 ha) 2
Sugarcane
area
(1,000 ha)
Sampled Crushing
capacity
(1,000 ton/
year)
Under analysis/
total 1
Natural
vegetation
Pasture Grains Permanent
crops
Goiás 53/72 4 13,000 130 37.5 32.5 no no
Tocantins 2/4 4 7,100 91 24 12 no 10
Mato Grosso do Sul 36/47 13 40,610 494 101 yes no no
Mato Grosso 4/14 8 15,000 200 yes 32.5 no 0.8
Minas Gerais3 22/52 2 3,822 47 yes yes no yes
São Paulo3 37/205 3 8,000 108 50.5 yes yes no
1 Under analysis means the project mill is under environmental analysis.
2 The numbers refer to those studies which presented land use changes numbers, while ‘yes/no’ refer to those studies which did not quantified
land use.
3 Minas Gerais and São Paulo total mills are preliminary data.
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