sugar cane Articles
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Plene - increasing yields case study
PLENE is an innovative yield-increasing technology for sugar cane, due to be launched in 2011. PLENE sugar cane segments are treated with seed care applications to protect them in early growth stages. Planting is faster and easier than conventional methods. This will reduce the costs of sugar cane planting by 15 percent per hectare. Our development team is working with leading agricultural ...
By Syngenta
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The water footprint of sweeteners and bio-ethanol
An increasing demand for food together with a growing demand for energy crops result in an increasing demand for and competition over water. Sugar cane, sugar beet and maize are not only essential food crops, but also important feedstock for bio-ethanol. Crop growth requires water, a scarce resource. This study aims to assess the green, blue and grey water footprint (WF) of sweeteners and ...
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MICROBE-LIFT ® Technology Speeds Sugar Cane Waste Composting while Producing Higher Quality Fertilizer - Composting
On sugar plantations, cane waste solids called “cachaza” are produced as a by-product. This cachaza is separated from the sugar cane juice and composted for use as a fertilizer. The plantation’s management wanted to increase efficiency of composting in order to reduce labor and increase the capacity of their facility. A field trial was developed to assess the benefits of ...
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In search of solvency: changing agricultural governance in an ethnic minority autonomous region of southwest China
During the last quarter century, China's agricultural sector has undergone a dramatic transformation from collective to private production, resulting in marked improvements in quality of life for most rural citizens. However, economic development in the countryside has been highly uneven, particularly in China's southwestern region, with its arid land, rugged topography and high concentration of ...
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Don`t forget water in the true cost of biobased packaging
The additional 3 billion middle-class consumers expected by 2030 presents one of today’s greatest challenges, but they also provide one of the business community’s greatest financial opportunities. Against the backdrop of an increasingly resource-constrained world and volatile commodity prices, business as usual is not an option. The scalable, resource-efficient business models of ...
By Trucost Plc
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New and Improved Bonzode
In Haitian Creole the word bonzodè means “good smell,” and that’s just what it does! What is it? Bonzodè is the cover material used as the “flush” in SOIL’s water-free household toilets. When a family on SOIL’s sanitation services uses their in-home toilet, they add a handful of bonzodè and it works its magic to prevent flies, ensure ...
By SOIL Haiti
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Hope for Senegal’s blacklisted Ramsar site
June is the end of the hot and dry season in Senegal. More auspiciously, it is peak mango season. As I drove north from the capital of Dakar with a team from the Wetlands International Africa office, mango sellers blanketed the roadside selling the best mangoes I’d ever tasted. On my journey to Senegal’s Ndiaël Avifauna Special Reserve, a former floodplain with wetlands of ...
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ANFIS approach to the working of a compost–heat extractor
Composting is an organic sludge management option in which volatile solids are converted to carbon dioxide and water. As the sugar cane press mud undergoes aerobic composting, the bed heats–up to a temperature in the range of 50–70°C, releasing thermal energy and the heat liberated was extracted using a heat pipe. A neural network approach is applied to analyse the data obtained ...
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Revolution through fresh sugar cane juice centers
This is quite common street business found everywhere in India. Sugarcane juice vendors extract sugarcane juice in presence of customers and serve the glasses of fresh juice to the people. Mostly this business is on the street, very rarely in shops. Small sugarcane crushers are mostly driven by 1 hp motor where repeated crushing is done many times to extract enough juice. Hand operated ...
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Influence of marketing mix elements on the intention of sugarcane farmers in Thailand to use commercial tailor–made fertiliser
Tailor–made fertiliser (TMF) is a new practice in Thailand that aims to achieve a more efficient use of a fertiliser on cultivated soil. This study attempts to determine farmers' attitudes toward a marketing mix of TMF and to investigate factors influencing the farmers' intention to use TMF in accordance with the marketing mix strategy. A survey was conducted among 387 sugar cane farmers who were ...
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A new and multi-functional variety of sugar cane adapted to Spanish conditions
A drought-resistant variety with 30% more fibre Al Costa, head of the Alkol consultancy, champions the return of sugar-cane growing to Spain as it is a highly versatile raw material for bioenergy and ideal conditions for it exist in many regions of the country. A drought-resistant variety with more fibre More than 80% of the area planted in Spain is taken up with the now outdated NC0310 ...
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Biofuel scenarios in a water perspective: The global blue and green water footprint of road transport in 2030
Concerns over energy security and climate change stimulate developments towards renewable energy. Transport is expected to switch from fossil fuel use to the use of fuel mixtures with a larger fraction of biofuels, e.g. bio-ethanol and biodiesel. Growing biomass for biofuels requires water, a scarce resource. Existing scenarios on freshwater use usually consider changes in food and livestock ...
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Review of Palm Tree Hygiene Foaming Hand Sanitiser
Review of the Palmtree Hygiene ‘Rose & Vanilla’ Hand Sanitiser. I have a D.U.T. (Diploma in Technological Studies) in Biological Engineering, a B.Sc. in Health’s Biochemistry, and a M.Sc. in Immunology. I worked as a Research Assistant for the Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre (Montreal, Canada) between 2015 and 2018, and for the Ste Justine Research ...
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Peru: Olmos irrigation project sparks development debate
The recently launched irrigation and hydropower Olmos megaproject in Peru is hailed a ‘masterpiece of engineering’ aimed at stimulating rural development — but some fear the initiative will mostly benefit big companies. The project will bring water from the Atlantic side of the Andes to the Pacific side through a tunnel in the mountains, to irrigate the arid Olmos Valley in the ...
By SciDev.Net
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All About Organic Sugarcane Alcohol (AKA, The BEST There Is)
All hand sanitizers are not equal, and the differences start with ingredients. Lemyn exclusively uses 100% USDA-certified organic sugarcane alcohol to make our Medical Grade Organic Hand Sanitizer Gel. It’s the highest grade of alcohol available, and Lemyn Organics exclusively sources our alcohol from South America where the sugarcane is grown without the use of pesticides, herbicides and ...
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NNFCC Christmas Wishlist
Top 10 - NNFCC's biobased Christmas Wishlist In such uncertain times, it’s always good to know that some things never change. So as per tradition, here is the new NNFCC biobased Christmas Wishlist for 2020! We’ve drawn out our top 10 of the biobased products that we wouldn’t mind seeing under the tree this year. BiOBUDDi baby toys Get them started early! Even our little ones ...
By NNFCC Ltd.
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Ivey International Inc. successfully emulsifies BioOil with hydrocarbon diesel
DynaMotive Energy Systems Corporation (OTCBB: DYMTF) announced today that Ivey International Inc, a British Columbia environmental solutions company working with DynaMotive, has successfully emulsified BioOil with hydrocarbon diesel. The goal of the emulsification testing is to allow for co-burning of a BioOil/ diesel mix in stationary engines without requiring significant modifications to them. ...
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Why are certain herbicides banned?
Herbicides, also known as weedkillers, are chemical substances used to control and kill unwanted plants (weeds), leaving the desired plants unharmed. While these products are very useful for farmers, they are not always safe. In fact, many herbicides that were in common use around the world a few years ago are slowly being banned. In this blog post, we will look at a few herbicides that are used ...
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Sugarcane responses to irrigation and nitrogen in semiarid south Texas
Water and N are often limiting factors for sugarcane (Saccharum spp.) production. This study was conducted to determine the effect of different levels of water availability on sugarcane growth, yield, and responses to N application, and also to evaluate the effectiveness of alternative N application methods. Three irrigation levels (20% below crop evapotranspiration [ETc], full ETc replacement, ...
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Industry innovators collaborate to tackle compostable coffee pods in hospitality sector
Here at Tidy Planet, we’ve teamed up with AstraZeneca, Sodexo, Le Manoir aux Quat'Saisons, and Halo Coffee, to close the loop for one of the hospitality sector’s trickiest, and most abundant, waste streams – coffee pods.It’s estimated that approximately 60 billion of these capsules are manufactured annually – three quarters of which end up in landfill, and can take up to 500 years to fully break ...
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