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Brazil Spends US$10 Million On Ethanol Campaign
By Mr Ethanol | February 26, 2008
EnergyCurrent:
Brazil’s trade promotion agency Apex and sugar cane industry association Unica would reportedly undertake a US$10 million campaign aimed at boosting the use of sugar cane-based biofuel, according to media reports. Apex and Unica on Feb. 25 signed a pact that will run until the end of 2009. The campaign will target the United States, Canada, Europe and Asia.
“The aim is to build an international biofuels market, which currently practically does not exist,” Apex President Alessando Teixeira said in a Agence France-Presse report. Teixeira said demand for ethanol from crops is growing, “and Brazilian ethanol, made from sugarcane, has emerged as the most viable alternative, with competitive advantages over maize, beetroot and other primary materials.”
The United States is the world’s largest ethanol producer, with 28 million litres output mostly derived from corn in 2007. Brazil is second with 22 billion litres of ethanol produced from sugar cane.
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