Sentences with phrase «cane cultivation»

By government estimates, the country has some 50 million hectares of degraded but arable pasture that could be used for soy and cane cultivation.

EU budget fraud has historically taken a wide range of forms, from Croatian farmers seeking payments for climatically impossible sugar cane cultivation to the channelling of funds for immigration projects to what some have labelled Palestinian terrorist groups.

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Compared to cane sugar, cultivation of stevia also requires fewer resources like water and land because products need less of it to achieve a sugar - like taste as parts of the stevia leaf are 400 times sweeter than regular sugar, she claimed.

Plantations in Brazil, the world's biggest producer of ethanol from sugar cane, haven't encroached on land used for food cultivation or on the Amazon rainforest, he asserted.