Sentences with phrase «sugarcane farmers»

Both Brazilian sugarcane farmers who turn excess to ethanol and Chinese city dwellers who enjoy hot tea thanks to solar water heaters don't realize it but they are at the forefront of what an international panel of scientists hopes the future will look like.

Environmental activists seized upon the crisis in a renewed push to blame sugarcane farmers.

Under the Visionary leadership of President John Mahama, The New Komenda Sugar Factory has commenced operations now relying on outgrowers and sugarcane farmers from 100 km radius of the factory's premises to supply sugarcane aside the factory's own plantations which will commence soon.

One of the company's goals is to help ensure the growth and stability of Louisiana's sugarcane farmers and integrate more than 800 growers into the industry's economic structure.

LSR plans to continue growing by providing sugarcane farmers with a home for their products.

Not exact matches

About 90 per cent of sugarcane output in the country comes from farmers with a planted area of less than 5 hectares, Ignacio said.

The digital sugarcane, described earlier this year by researchers at the University of Illinois at Urbana — Champaign, illustrates how crops in silicomight aid farmers.

To plant the corn or sugarcane or soybeans from which biodiesel and bioethanol are made, farmers would first need to clear forests and grasslands.

The small towns of Bellavista and Santa Rosa were established in the humid highlands, where farmers raised cattle and planted crops such as avocados, coffee, sugarcane, bananas, oranges, and lemons.

IFC, the World Bank Group's private sector arm, is working with leading agribusiness firms to improve agricultural and water management practices and introduce new technologies among 15,000 smallholder farmers producing rice, maize and sugarcane to help them adapt to climate change.

Today, more than 800 of these families are committed to producing organic sugarcane and the benefits are twofold: the farmers receive a better price for their cane and the environment is preserved via organic farming methods.

Faced with a seemingly insatiable demand for automotive fuel, farmers will want to clear more and more of the remaining tropical forests to produce sugarcane, oil palms, and other high - yielding biofuel crops.