An article appeared in the latest issue of Global Change Biology Bioenergy that appraises the past and present state of sugarcane ethanol production in Brazil and provides a calculated approach for bettering the production and ecosystem services in future.
Pilot Plant for Process Development
The new method initiated by the researchers’ assigns priority for the manufacture of ethanol in an accountable and eco-friendly process known as ‘midway’ strategy. The suggested new strategy requires development of the essential biotechnology to augment the yield of biomass and ethanol manufacture, which in turn will restrict the expansion of agricultural area while improving the sugarcane management. The approach will successfully bring down the consequences of sugarcane bio-ethanol manufacture on biodiversity while interactively shielding and restoring rainforest.
Productive accomplishment of midway plan needs implementation of three important factors such as introduction of a scientific research to know the ecosystem of sugarcane, scientific advancements of genetically modified sugarcane crops and manufacturing expertise and introduction of government regulations to support environment- friendly land management.
Marcos Buckeridge, University of São Paulo’s Professor and Brazilian Bioethanol Science and Technology Laboratory’s Scientific Director stated that Brazil is advantageously positioned to initiate a crop production method that improves the ecology and the midway strategy needs to be enforced for all types of crops. He added that the stable economy of the country and its global leadership in sugarcane ethanol manufacture keeps it in a desirable position to introduce the midway strategy.