Sentences with phrase «of sugarcane for»

Addressing students at the University of Cape Coast (UCC) on the issue of sugarcane for the Komenda Sugar Factory, the 2012 presidential aspirant said; «They come and tell us that they are putting a sugar factory there.
The factory is also wasting away now, but the other side of the vision that requires providing the factory with 225,000 metric tonnes of sugarcane for the factory to operate at optimum capacity is yet to be realized by the nation.

Not exact matches

Much of the ETBE used in Japan is already made in the United States using Brazilian sugarcane ethanol, so the new rules should make it easy for producers to switch quickly to U.S. corn - based sources.
Sugarcane adds a hint of sweetness and an authentic touch, but wooden skewers make a fine stand - in — just soak them in water for 20 minutes before using.
Takamaka Rum is made with water collected from the Vallée de Mai for its high mineral content, and sugarcane grown for Takamaka by a cooperative of independent family farms which is then blended with molasses based rums for a unique flavour profile.
The region within 400 km radius from the food park site is known for production of ragi, sunflower, coconut, gherkins, groundnut, maize, jowar, spices, sugarcane and milk.
For food safety approval, we have analysed the nutritional content of the sugarcane stalk from current commercial varieties.
Sugarcane is grown in a range of environments from northern New South Wales to far north Queensland and is a major export crop for Australia.
Join the likes of legendary Chef Allen Susser, Chef Timon Balloo of Sugarcane Raw Bar Grille for South Florida's premiere culinary affair.
More than half of the land the 2012 PPP flagbearer is developing for his Ndoum University is Government acquired land for the Komenda Sugar Factory of which the old Factory built by Osagyefo Dr Kwame Nkrumah cultivated sugarcane on that very land to feed the factory.
If the PPP founder who has been talking about corruption and respect for institutions is noted for this, will you be surprised when he chastises Government for not starting a sugarcane plantation for the factory before it's commissioning when the same person has acquired a large tract of the land meant for the plantations?
Addressing members of the Shesheeshew company in Agona Swedru, he said «How can the Komenda Sugar Factory company which is 100 % owned by the Government of Ghana commence the cultivation of its own sugarcane when the likes of Dr Paa Kwesi Nduom have encroached on the Factory's Lands meant for plantations?
Renowned entrepreneur and Founder of the Progressive People's Party (PPP), Dr. Papa Kwesi Nduom, has questioned the rationale behind Government's decision to hurriedly inaugurate the Komenda Sugar Factory in the Central Region, without the availability of the quantum of sugarcane, needed for the factory to run efficiently.
State Senator Adriano Espaillat has styled himself as a champion of agricultural laborers in New York — but fueling his bid for Congress are donations from a sugarcane plantation - owning clan with an international reputation for mistreating workers.
In view of the promised one district one factory programme, it is evident that we need people who are skillful in converting say cassava, coconut, cola sugarcane etc. into finished goods, depending on what the district is known for.
He was part of the team that introduced sugarcane - based charcoal as a cheap cooking fuel, and his solar disinfecting plastic bags purify water for drinking.
Brazil is the world's leading producer of sugarcane, and São Paulo state accounts for more than two - thirds of the nation's production.
A recent analysis from researchers at the University of Illinois estimate that this aircraft could fly for 10 hours on bio-jet fuel produced on 54 acres of specially engineered sugarcane.
Max Shauck, chair of the Baylor Institute for Air Science (who flew an ethanol - powered prop plane at air shows in the 1980s), has converted at least 1,000 such aircraft in Brazil, a country that has weaned itself from foreign oil by embracing ethanol domestically produced from sugarcane.
Locals still burn sugarcane each year as a preharvest way of prepping the soil, but the researchers found that this could not account for the amount of black carbon they were seeing.
In Madagascar, for example, the most important food crops include rice, cassava, maize, sugarcane, wheat, sweet potatoes, soybean, beans, and bananas, all of which originated elsewhere.
Her team is collaborating with researchers in the Colorado School of Public Health's Center for Global Health to design and test ways to improve the health of sugarcane workers and other agricultural workers in the region.
Although the conversion of pasture for sugarcane and other monocrops on Peixoto's farm has contributed to the degradation of the Cerrado ecosystem, she and her husband consider themselves nature lovers, and are ready to welcome back the big cats.
The study provided a comparison of core - measured and GPR - estimated root parameters depicting the most significant relations for wheat cultivars, studied in Amarillo and Uvalde, and sugarcane cultivars, studied in Weslaco.
The new study estimates land available for growing biofuels — crops such as corn or sugarcane that can be converted to fuels - at between 56 and 1035 million hectares, compared to previous estimates of 320 to 1411 million hectares.
«Ultimately, the goal of this project is to establish a productive sugarcane industry on Sapelo for the benefit of its people.
Depending on the nature of plant - growth environment for sugarcane or beet root, sugarcane and / or beet molasses used in the fermentation process, may be highly concentrated in harmful things like insecticides etc..
Originally, the trees were planted as a windbreak for sugarcane, but today Hawaii grows over 90 % of macadamia nuts worldwide.
One of our friends from Chicago and moved near Miami the year before, so our second night out, we met up with him for dinner at a cool restaurant in Midtown called Sugarcane.
While the film and the memoir have been given the unfair label of being ONLY ABOUT «slavery is bad» (as if that fact alone would not be worthy) many of the more subtle points have been ignored, but is best summed up this way, «It is notable not only for its lucid description of plantation life, with detailed passages on the methods by which cotton and sugarcane were harvested and processed, and how slaves were fed, housed and punished, but also for the author's evenhanded treatment of his subject: although he denounces slavery as an institution, Northup expresses his gratitude to the masters who treated him with gentleness and generosity, and shows a surprising ability to forgive even the most unimaginable cruelties.»
Jack explains that he can not work in the sugarcane fields, because it would involve crossing a bridge, which he never does for fear of meeting a troll.
As he matures, his desire for grandeur and fame is channeled into shaping the fates of the impoverished and overlooked children of the Pu'unene sugarcane plantation workers.
One — Unblemished Beachiness When Christopher Columbus came ashore 70 nautical miles west of here in December of 1493 with his soldiers, priests, pigs, horses, wheat, sugarcane and rats and microbes, he was on the hunt for gold.
For less than the cost of your takeaway coffee, learn the history of this sugarcane and cattle town at the Proserpine Historical Museum.
Today you'll leave Port Douglas for the friendly town of Mossman, passing through sugarcane fields on the 30 minute scenic drive north.
The massive size of the sphinx - like Domino sugar mammy figure makes a strong first impression, and the fact that sugar was produced and harvested primarily by African slaves is a major premise that aligns A Subtlety with Walker's earlier work: many black lives were lost turning sugarcane into a fine confection for the pleasures and delights of a privileged white elite.
see: Expansion of Industrial Logging in Central Africa Science 8 June 2007: http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/abstract/316/5830/1451?etoc — After the rainforests are gone in Africa, S.A. and Indonesia they'll replant it in African oil palms and sugarcane for even more fuel to add to atmospheric load of greenhouse gas.
He's terrible on trade, supporting maintenance of the tariff on imported Brazilian ethanol made from sugarcane, and has pushed for a dramatic expansion of the subsidies for ethanol production in this country.
Setting aside the fact that in many cases clean energy competes on its own merits — for instance in the case of well ‐ situated wind farms and Brazilian sugarcane ethanol — this analysis shows that the global direct subsidy for fossil fuels is around ten times the subsidy for renewables.
Brazil's sugarcane - based ethanol program is «appropriate for replication in many countries,» writes José Goldemberg, secretary of the environment for the Brazilian state of São Paulo, in a perspective article in this week's issue of the journal Science.
(05/01/2013) Intensification of Brazil's sugarcane industry in response to rising demand for sugar - based ethanol could have impacts on the regional climate reports a new study by researchers from Arizona State University, Stanford University and the Carnegie Institution for Science.
In the case of sugarcane ethanol, a lot of energy inputs are required, especially for purifying the ethanol, but those inputs are being satisfied by burning the sugarcane ethanol residues to produce process heat.
Despite that, I believe sugarcane ethanol is a good option for mitigating a portion of our fossil fuel usage because it is renewable, and it lacks the negative externalities of fossil fuels.
So no, the energy balance of sugarcane ethanol is not in fact better than that for gasoline.
Fast - growing sugarcane on highly fertile land in Brazil, for example, converts only around 0.5 percent of incoming solar radiation into sugar, and only around 0.2 percent ultimately into ethanol.
Green house gases emissions in the production and use of ethanol from sugarcane in Brazil: The 2005/2006 averages and a prediction for 2020
By the time you harvest Brazilian sugarcane by hand, burn it for production power, burn what's left over in the field, ship it from refineries to the dock, load it onto ocean going ships burning bunker, the dirtiest fuel available, then ship it thousands of miles to terminals in California and distribute it to retail outlets — It's Not going to be environmentally superior to shipping American ethanol from the Corn Belt.
Intensification of Brazil's sugarcane industry in response to rising demand for sugar - based ethanol could have impacts on the regional climate reports a new study by researchers from Arizona State University,...
Biomass are plants (like hemp, corn, sugarcane) grown to generate electricity or produce biofuel, plus plant or animal matter used for production of fibers, chemicals, or heat.
Biofuels driving destruction of Brazilian cerrado (8/21/2007) The cerrado, wooded grassland in Brazil that once covered an area half the size of Europe, is fast being transformed into croplands to meet rising demand for soybeans, sugarcane, and cattle.
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