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Brazil Can Expand Ethanol And Keep Its Forests
By Mr Ethanol | November 5, 2008
Brazzil Magazine:
The president of Brazil, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva is going to present on November 17, in São Paulo, in the Brazilian southeast, an agricultural zoning plan that is currently being prepared by the Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock and Supply of Brazil.
The study should be disclosed at the opening of the international conference on biofuels “International Conference on Biofuels: Biofuels as a driving force of sustainable development”, to take place from the November 17 to 21.
“The study is going to show the areas for expansion of agriculture in the country, without including the Amazon, the Pantanal (wetlands in the west of the country), native Indian areas, forests, cities, etc.,” said, in an interview to foreign correspondents, ambassador André Amado, undersecretary general for Energy and Top-End Technology at the Itamaraty, who is responsible for the event.
According to him, the research is effectively going to reveal the areas to be used by several crops, including sugarcane for production of ethanol, without this implying in deforestation. The study shows land that is currently underused. “It will be a great advance in this area, as details are lacking,” he said.
According to figures disclosed by the ministry, the country has 65 million hectares available for the expansion of sugarcane, being 37 million now in grazing land. In early October, the minister of Agriculture of Brazil, Reinhold Stephanes, said that the cultivation of sugarcane should expand into these grazing grounds, which are well distributed throughout Brazil.
Stephanes added that over the next eight years, Brazil should need from four to five million hectares to double production of sugarcane. He also said that zoning is a system to generate compatibility between food and biofuel production and respect to the environment. Full article.
Topics: Brazil, Ecology, Ethanol |
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